1894 Branch church established in Tacoma, Washington, five years after Christian Science was introduced in the Puget Sound area. Meetings were held in a rented hall at 1113 ½ South Tacoma Avenue until 1901.

1901 The first Christian Science church building in Tacoma was built at the corner of Division Avenue and I Street. Hugh Ferguson donated the land out of gratitude for the healing that his wife experienced through Christian Science. The church was built for a cost of $5000 and the first service was held in the building on June 2, 1901. This is thought to be the first Christian Science church building on Puget Sound and was a wooden structure, constructed on what were “modern” architectural lines in 1901. The seating capacity of this first building was 300.

1908 The congregation outgrows the first building and leases the old Masonic Temple on St. Helens (located where the Medical Arts Building was later built) for church services.  The first building is razed, and construction of a larger church building begins on the same site.

1911 The current church edifice was built on the original site and the first service was held there on December 31, 1911.The church was built at a cost $45,000. The classic, cream-colored building, with its ionic capitals atop fluted pillars at the entrance, and its blue-green copper dome is a well-known Tacoma landmark.

1921 Current church building was dedicated, free of debt.

Information for this time line was compiled from church records and news articles from the Tacoma Daily Ledger and the Tacoma News Tribune.