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Old St. Peter's Church is located between North 29th and North 30th Street on Starr Street which is the first
street to you left as you exit the off ramp from Schuster Parkway/Ruston Way - the extension of I-705. The
area is popularly known as Old Town, because this is where the city began in 1869. St. Peter's was founded
in 1873 and in 1874 it received as a gift a bell from St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. Lacking a formal
steeple its bell tower is a Cedar tree which was, in the 1870's rung by hand and accessed via a plank from the peak of
the shingle roof. Additionally, in 1874, it acquired a pump organ and its first organist was a young girl, Anna Wolfe, who
was of the Hebrew faith. Every major denomination used St. Peter's as its "first" church because it was the
only church building in town for nearly ten years. It is the oldest church building in Tacoma and the third oldest in the
State of Washington.
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