1808 E. Valley Hwy., Sumner, Washington. County/parish: Pierce.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 14, 1997. NRIS 97000324.
Part of Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS (NRIS 64500710).
3 contributing buildings.
The Dieringer School buildings are the last remaining group associated with the Dieringer community. Constructed in 1921 and 1928 by Tacoma architect Emanuel J. Bresemann. As the community of Norwood, established on May 5, 1888, with Joseph C. Dieringer, its first postmaster. Dieringer, had a restaurant in Tacoma, before he moved to the Stuck River Valley in the 1880s. Dr. Charles H. Spinning, had been a physician in the 1860s at the Cushman Indian Agency on the Puyallup Reservation, provided the land for the Dieringer School. In 1892, the post office name was changed from Norwood to Dieringer to honor its first postmaster.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75611350