Front Street, Looking South
This file appears in: The Great Fire of 1889
A young boy stands in the rubble of Spokane's downtown business district.
Image L94-24.183 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Art & 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…