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Knickerbocker (Spokane, Washington)

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Knickerbocker is a historic Beaux Arts building in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood of Spokane, Washington. It was designed by architect Albert Held and was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The building is also listed on the Spokane Register of Historic Places, under the name Knickerbocker Apartments.

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Knickerbocker (Spokane, Washington)
South Stevens Street, Spokane

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Lewis and Clark High School

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99201 Spokane
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Breslin (Spokane, Washington)
Breslin (Spokane, Washington)

The Breslin is a historic six-story building in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood of Spokane, Washington. It was designed by architect Albert Held in the Classical Revival style, and built in 1910 by W.H. Stanley with "Tenino sandstone, press red brick and cream-colored terra cotta" at a cost of $100,000.The six-story, flat-roofed building is L-shaped, with wings along Eighth Avenue and Bernard Street. The two wings surround a courtyard in the rear of the building. This design gives each apartment a view out either onto Eighth Avenue, Bernard Street or the courtyard. There is also a daylight basement allowed for by the sloping hill along Bernard. The exterior is composed of red brick with white terra cotta ornamentation.Aside from its age alone, the Breslin is a historically significant building due to the community it was built to house. Spokane's population boomed in late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the city faced a housing shortage. For poor and working class people, the shortage was alleviated by the presence of hotels, boarding houses and flats for rent. However, there was little available housing stock for middle class people who did not own a home. Prior to 1900, the city listings showed no "apartment homes" in Spokane. Between 1900 and 1907 the city added over 40,000 people, and the city turned to the construction of apartment homes to help ease the housing shortage. Unlike other early apartment homes, which appeared as if they were large single-family homes or luxury clubs and hotels, the Breslin's design was forthright about its purpose. The Breslin, along with other buildings designed by Held, were among the very first apartment homes built in Spokane specifically for middle and upper-middle class tenants.It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 12, 1987. The Breslin, along with the Amman, Knickerbocker and San Marco buildings, all designed by Held, were listed on the NRHP together as part of a thematic group nomination. All four are considered significant examples of early 20th century apartment construction.The Breslin was sold for $6.5 million in 2021. At the time, the Breslin was home to 46 units ranging from studio apartments to one and two-bedroom units. In June of 2022, the new owners filed a permit for renovations that would include the addition of eight studio apartment units to the basement and first story of the building.

Downtown Spokane

Downtown Spokane or Riverside is the central business district of Spokane, Washington. The Riverside neighborhood is roughly bounded by I-90 to the south, Division Street to the east, Monroe Street to the west and Boone Avenue to the north. The topography of Downtown Spokane is mostly flat except for areas downstream of the Spokane Falls which are located in a canyon; the elevation is approximately 1,900 feet (580 m) above sea level. Located at a traditional Native American gathering place at the Spokane Falls, American settlement was established in 1871. Most of Spokane's notable buildings, historic landmarks, and high rises are in the Riverside neighborhood and the downtown commercial district, where many of the buildings were rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1889 in the Romanesque Revival style by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter. After experiencing periods of decline from Post-war suburbanization, the most recent following Expo '74, the neighborhood has become revitalized after the completion of the River Park Square Mall in 1999, which has become the most prominent shopping center in the city. The chief attraction of downtown Spokane is Riverfront Park, a 100-acre (0.40 km2) park just north Spokane's downtown core, it was created after Expo '74 and occupies the same site. The park hosts some of Spokane's largest events. The neighborhood is also the center of Spokane's governmental, hospitality, convention, and cultural facilities. Mass transportation throughout downtown and the Spokane area is provided by the Spokane Transit Authority (STA) which has its STA Plaza central hub in the city center and Amtrak's Empire Builder and Greyhound operate out of the Spokane Intermodal Center. Spokane's city streets use a grid plan that is oriented to the four cardinal directions with its origin point on the east end of downtown. Sprague Avenue splits the city into North and South and Division Street divides the city into East and West. Interstate 90 (I-90) runs east–west from Seattle, through downtown Spokane, and eastward through Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake, and onward to Coeur d'Alene and then Missoula.

Marycliff-Cliff Park Historic District
Marycliff-Cliff Park Historic District

The Marycliff-Cliff Park Historic District is a historic residential area in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, located immediately uphill from the city's downtown core, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The district is made up of two distinct but connected areas, the Marycliff section located at the base of a basalt cliff and south of Seventh Avenue, and the Cliff Park section located atop the cliff and north of 14th Avenue. Encroachment from the nearby city center has changed the nature of the Marycliff section over the decades. Of the palatial homes built in the late 1800s in the area, all have either been converted to commercial or public use or razed to make way for new development, though there are still a number of properties that are intact and reflect the historic nature of the area. The Cliff Park section retains its original residential character and historic nature, with only 11 properties listed as intrusive among the 118 properties in the area.Built between 1889 and 1941, the historic district is home to numerous architectural styles. Examples of Jacobethan Revival, Georgian Revival, Bungalow, International Style and Spanish Colonial Revival structures can be found in the district. There are a handful of modern intrusions in the area, including the Kenneth and Edna Brooks house built in 1956, which was listed individually on the NRHP on its own merit in 2004. The property is interesting as it is considered an intrusion to the historic district, but historic enough on its own nonetheless to have been listed on the NRHP.The historic district's location along and atop a cliff overlooking the city center played a prominent role in its development. Wealthy residents in the then nascent city of Spokane built mansions in the Browne's Addition neighborhood, along flat land just west of downtown. When space began to run out there, construction of homes for wealthy and prominent residents shifted to the area south of the city center in what is now the Marycliff area of the district, and later up the cliff to the Cliff Park section. Numerous high-profile architects designed homes in the district, including Kirtland Cutter, who built homes along Cliff Drive to resemble scaled down versions of English country manors. Other architects including Waterhouse & Price, Karl Malmgren, Albert Held and G.A. Pehrson, among others, designed homes in the district.