A three-bedroom home perched above Commencement Bay on North Stadium Way hit the market for $1.1 million earlier in October and already has a pending offer.

The 1979 house at 405 N. Stadium Way is easy to miss from the street, but inside it opens into a sunken living room, a cantilevered balcony and a self-contained upstairs suite, all finished with detailed woodwork.

Listing agent Regina Madiera-Gorden, managing partner of RM Home Specialists with Windermere Real Estate, described it as a sophisticated treehouse in an interview with the Tacoma News Tribune, which first reported on the property.

The home belonged to Eugene and Kathy Wiegman, two of Tacoma's most active civic figures for more than five decades.

Eugene Wiegman died on July 1, 2020, at age 90. Kathy Wiegman died in 2026, according to the News Tribune. The sellers are the family's heirs.

Eugene Wiegman arrived in Tacoma in 1969 as the ninth president of Pacific Lutheran University, a post he held until 1974. He went on to serve as Washington state commissioner of Employment Security from 1977 to 1981, according to PLU's presidential history.

He helped found Community Health Care, which began with services for Tacoma's Eastside and Salishan communities and grew into a network of clinics across Pierce County.

He also served on the board of Tacoma General Hospital, was a member of the Urban League of Tacoma and chaired the Urban Coalition from 1969 to 1974.

Kathy Wiegman was an original board member of Second City Chamber, supporting chamber music and young musicians for more than 40 years. The listing agent's online profile of the home describes the couple serving Thanksgiving meals at Nativity House and ringing Salvation Army bells at Christmas.

The house itself doubled as a gathering place for the couple's civic work. Madiera-Gorden told the News Tribune the Wiegmans used the main floor for fundraising events tied to PLU and their many charitable organizations. "I think they wanted that first floor to be a showplace," she said.

The home's design has been attributed to Ernst Schwidder, a Tacoma-area artist and longtime PLU art professor known for carved-wood religious artwork in churches across the Northwest. Schwidder taught at PLU from 1967 until his retirement in 1992 and died in 1998, according to a 2014 PLU profile of a project preserving his work. Madiera-Gorden stopped short of confirming the connection in the listing, writing that Schwidder's "connection to PLU and Tacoma during this period makes the home's attribution particularly intriguing."

The upstairs level serves as an owner's retreat with a private bath, sauna and a large balcony overlooking the city and water. Two more bedrooms and a full bath sit on the lower level, with glass doors opening to gardens planted with rosemary and lavender.

The home's basic kitchen and vertical layout may not suit every buyer, Madiera-Gorden acknowledged. But for the Wiegmans, plans filed with the city before 1980 represented a forever home built around their own lives. The listing already has a pending offer.