Welcome to the Gray Lumber blog. This site is an opportunity to learn about our company, its expert staff, and the diverse lines offered. Here is a full-service supply yard committed to helping customers.
The sales team, with an average of 25 years of experience, is knowledgeable and familiar with suppliers around the country. If we don’t stock what you need, it will be found for you. Please contact our office at 800.GLC.GRAY or 253.752.7000 for more information. You are invited to meet us at our showroom in Tacoma’s Sixth Avenue Business District to discuss your construction plans.
Gray Lumber is a family organization that consistently provides quality construction products at competitive prices with personal service. We are an innovative and progressive supplier of high quality building materials for construction to the contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific Rim. We can help you complete your construction projects quickly and successfully. Let our over 100 years of “Performance + Integrity” assist you in your projects. Our knowledgeable sales people have an average of 25 years experience in the construction industry. Please visit our website for more information: http://graylumber.com.
For quality lumber, millwork, studs, pressure treated products, plywood, OSB sheathing, underlayment, particle board, siding, insulation, window and doors, cabinets, beams, trusses, timbers, work gear, tools and hardware, along with outstanding service since its founding, visit Gray Lumber Company.
1 year ago
Tacoma’s oldest lumber company was founded in 1903 by Claude F. Gray. Known originally as the Independent Lumber and Fuel Company, “Independent” denoted that it was not party to the price-fixing of the lumber cooperatives. The first store location at South 39th and M Street is still open today, serving as the company’s shipping department. Tacoma Railway and Power tracks brought in the lumber where trucks do now. Horses were the primary mode of transport around the town until the late 1920’s.
Due to this limitation, the firm grew to five yards in Tacoma by 1910. The arrival of cheap motor transport in the 1930’s ended this expansion. The company trimmed its holdings during the Depression to the present two yards, the original one at M Street and the other on Sixth Avenue. The fuel company and two lumber mills were also liquidated at this time. Despite the challenges of the Depression, business continued apace. Many homes in Tacoma were both furnished and constructed by Gray Lumber Company before and during the Depression. WWII and after was a time of consolidation for Gray Lumber Company as the firm concentrated on lumber and hardware sales in Tacoma. Neil Gray began to assume ownership from his father, Claude, after returning from service in the Navy during the war. Ownership passed to the present third generation, Neil “Mac” Gray and Stephen Gray, in the 1980’s.
A distribution yard in South Tacoma was added in the last decade to allow for additional lumber storage. Recently the company completed a phase of extensive construction. Older structures were replaced with new facilities designed to better serve our customers and the company. Essential to our quality service are our 55 skilled employees who average 25 years of experience in the building materials industry. We look forward to many more years supplying cutting-edge construction materials in the Northwest with performance and integrity that hearkens back to that earlier time.
(Source: graylumber.com)
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