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…