Downtown Spokane historic buildings

There are so many historic buildings in downtown Spokane that it’s hard to choose the best ones.

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Sat., June 24, 2017

The Davenport Hotel was built in 1914 and completely restored by developer Walt Worthy in 2002.

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With HoopFest weekend approaching, the Historic Davenport Hotel was the only one of the Davenport Hotels Collection properties in downtown Spokane ., that had vacancies Wednesday.

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During hotel renovations, The Hall of the Doges ballroom, was removed from the oldest part of Davenport Hotel, painstakingly preserved and restored then re-installed in the new East addition.

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Looking west, the elegant Davenport Hotel lobby is inspired by the Spanish Renaissance style.

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The Fox shows Zag spirit on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, in Spokane, Wash.

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The Fox Theater, Nov. 13, 2007, in downtown Spokane, WA.

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The Spokane Symphony holds a concert for the first of two groups of roughly 1,600 area fourth-graders on October 17, 2012, in the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox.

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The ornate celling in Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox is seen on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, in Spokane, Wash. The Spokane Symphony was holding a a free concert for two groups of roughly 1600 area 4th graders.

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Local 4th graders wait in single file line to enter Martin Woldson Theater on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, at the Fox in Spokane, Wash. The Spokane Symphony was holding a a free concert for two groups of roughly 1600 area 4th graders.

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Morning fog envelops the Steam Plant Square stacks Tuesday morning in downtown Spokane. The steam plant supplied heat to more than 300 buildings in downtown Spokane from 1916 until 1986.

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The Steam Plant restaurant is closed for a summer remodel.

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The Steam Plant stacks glow with red and green lights for the holidays in downtown Spokane, Wash. It's an effect made possible by a high-tech, expensive LED lighting setup that's controlled from a desktop computer.

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Steam Plant shops.

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The Paulsen Medical Building in Spokane. Photographed Mar. 30, 2010.

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The bright light of Friday morning highlight the facets of the glass in this door to the lobby of the Paulsen Center building in downtown Spokane. Framed in the window is a pedistrian passing by on the sidewalk.

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An arrangement of downtown buildings, from left to right, the Sherwood Building, now called the Cutter Tower, and the Old National Bank building, now called the U.S. Bank building. Shown Friday, June 16, 2016.

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The Old National Bank Building is an example of Chicago style.

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Masonry work on the Old National Bank in Spokane.

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Masonry work on the Old National Bank in Spokane.

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The historic Review Tower is framed by trees along Monroe Street.

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The historic Review Tower stands at the corner of Riverside Avenue and Monroe Street in downtown Spokane. Photographed Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016.

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The Spokesman-Review building and the Chronicle Building are reflect the sunset under a rainbow.

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The Spokesman-Review tower.

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One of the clocks on the exterior of the 1891 Review Tower is seen from the tower room, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016.

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Gargoyles guard the seventh floor roofline of the Chronicle Building, Jan. 20, 2017, in Spokane, Wash.

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Inside the 1891 Review Tower's round room, there are two levels of windows looking west, north and east. A smaller window, in the room outside the tower room, looks south.

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A winding staircase leads from the upper floors of the Review Tower to the tower rooms. The main building is seven stories, but the staircase goes up the equivalent of more than nine stories above Riverside Avenue.

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The elevator doors in the old lobby of the Review Tower. The elevator is not working any longer and is in the current Human Resources Department.

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Low-hanging clouds slide by the moon as it passes behind the Review Tower.

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The City Ramp Parking Garage at 430 West 1st Avenue in Spokane, Wash., opened in 1928. The garage has been undergoing a major renovation since June.

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A Paras Concrete employee covers equipment with plastic tarps near the third floor up ramp, March 30, 2011 in the City Ramp Parking Garage at 430 West 1st Avenue in Spokane, Wash. The garage has been undergoing a major renovation since June.

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The first publicly owned building on the list is the historic downtown post office building at Riverside and Lincoln.

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Downtown Spokane Post Office. 6/17/2017.

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Downtown Spokane Post Office. 6/16/2017.

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The first publicly owned building on the list is the historic downtown post office building at Riverside and Lincoln.

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The building is a mix of of beaux-arts classicism and Second Renaissance Revival in a Greek temple feel.

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The historic Chronicle Building, built in 1927, stands at Sprague Avenue and Monroe Street in downtown Spokane. Photographed Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016.

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The light fixtures in the Chronicle building entry hallway adds to the ambiance.

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Stained glass windows decorate the double doors leading into the Chronicle Building.

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The hallway leading into the Chronicle Building has marble floors and walls.

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Newt Gingrich supporters, Colleen and Ray Anncel, of Spokane Valley, Wash., warm their hands after waiting for an hour outside the the Bing Crosby Theater for a rally, Feb. 23, 2012 in Spokane, Wash.

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Owner Jerry Dicker walks down the new spiral staircase that links the upstairs to the third and fourth floors in the Bing Crosby Theater Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The third floor holds an upscale wine-and-beer bar and the fourth floor is a multipurpose room. Dicker, a businessman who once developed shopping centers in California, oversees the business plan for the theater while manager Michael Smith runs the operations.

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A bar fills a narrow room on the third floor of the Bing Crosby Theater Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The upscale wine-and-beer bar, called Ovations, will be open during theater performances and the empty fourth floor is a multipurpose room. Owner Jerry Dicker, a businessman who once developed shopping centers in California, oversees the business plan for the theater while manager Michael Smith runs the operations.

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City Council will vote Monday afternoon whether to accept a bid from North Coast Electric Co. to buy 50 programmable LED fixtures that would be installed under the highway between Wall and Bernard streets, due to a rise in crime near Lewis and Clark High School, pictured here.

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A student walks out the front entrance of Lewis and Clark High School near the WWI Memorial plaque on Thursday, March 30, 2017.

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Students are seen crossing the bridge between buildings against a backdrop of I-90 traffic at Lewis and Clark High School in downtown Spokane Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, the first day of school in the Spokane school district.

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The American Legion Building sits on the northeast corner of Riverside and Washington. JESSE TINSLEY jesset@spokesman.com Then and Now: It's been called the Metals Building, the Assemblee Building and the American Legion Building. Wealthy Spokane industrialist F. Lewis Clark built the elegant Renaissance Revival five-story building at Riverside and Washington in 1900 to house the Spokane Club and other businesses. Clark made his enormous wealth in land development, flour milling and railroads. He sold land to Louis Davenport to build a luxury hotel. He was a yachtsman who helped found the America's Cup race. But in 1914, on a visit to California, Clark disappeared, possibly committing suicide by jumping in the ocean. His hat was found near the pier in Santa Barbara. His building was later sold to the Metals Bank of Butte, then to an American Legion post in 1946. In 1939, owners installed a flat roof after fire destroyed the intricate mansard roofline. The roof was restored in the 1990s.

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