Sprague House Hotel, 1884
This file appears in: The Great Fire of 1889
Much of Spokane's fine buildings such as the Sprague House Hotel, located on the northwest corner of Railroad Avenue and Post Street, succumbed to the fire.
Image L2003-14.451 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.
This file appears in: The Great Fire of 1889
The Great Fire of 1889
When the territory of Washington became a state in 1889, the city of Spokane Falls was one of its largest and most successful cities. Attracting wealthy businessmen who had stakes in the nearby Idaho mines, Spokane Falls was a thriving young city…