Tacoma’s Weyerhaeuser Mansion!

Tacoma’s Weyerhaeuser Mansion!

Tacoma's Weyerhaeuser Mansion!

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In the 1920s and 30s, kidnappings of children of the wealthy were a huge problem, some of which ended very badly. Bobby Franks was the son of a Chicago millionaire who was kidnapped and murdered by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in 1924, Marion Parker, the daughter of a Los Angeles banker, met the same fate in 1927, and Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the son of the famous aviator, was just a year old when he was taken from his crib at the family estate in New Jersey and murdered in 1932. But there was one sensational kidnapping that fortunately ended well. It was the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping.

George was the nine-year-old son of lumber giant, John P. Weyerhaeuser. The Weyerhaeusers lived in Tacoma, Washington, near their Weyerhaeuser Lumber operation. In 1923, John and his wife built a stunning mansion in Tacoma with panoramic views from the Olympics to Mount Rainier. It was a fine place to raise their son and daughter with both of their schools nearby. Every day George’s school day ended earlier than his sister’s so he would walk to her school where the Weyerhaeuser chauffeur would pick them up for the ride home. On one fateful day in 1935, George decided not to wait and started walking home alone. It was at this point he was abducted and began experiencing terrorizing treatment by his abductors. Following the complicated instructions for leaving the $200,000 ransom money, John Weyerhaeuser was finally successful and George was safely released. In time, all the kidnappers, who were led by former convict Harmon Waley and his 19 year old wife Margaret Eldora Thulin, were apprehended by the FBI through the marked ransom bills and were sent to various high security prisons around the country.

In 1963, Harmon Waley was released from Alcatraz Prison. After his release, Waley was given a job by George Weyerhaeuser, his former kidnap victim, who by then was CEO of Weyerhaeuser Lumber.

Now on the market, and brimming with the luxury of the Gilded Age, the 15,600 square foot, eleven bedroom, eight bath Weyerhaeuser Mansion has all the extraordinary features of the time with elegant modern updates. Included in the home are a pipe organ, servants wing, five-bedroom carriage house, a kitchen designed for family meals to event preparations, flower room, butler’s pantry, VIP suite, massage room, a silver vault, conservatory, large greenhouse, billiard room, screening room, office, library and so much more. There are multiple elevators and public and hidden staircases between the three stories and basement. There is even an elevator to bring wood from the basement to feed the fireplaces. For more information.

The Weyerhaeuser Lumber Gilded Age estate, now priced at $5.4 million.

Source: www.remax.com