California Hotel, Spokane, WA demolished

Structure Type: built works - dwellings -public accommodations - hotels

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: [unspecified], demolished 1889

3 stories

click to open gallery Engraved view of the California Hotel, Spokane, 1889; from the Washington State Archives, and Harry H. Hook, Spokane Falls Illustrated (Minneapolis, MN: Frank L. Thresher, 1889)
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Spokane, WA

Overview

This three-story, wood-frame hotel operated in Downtown Spokane during the 1880s. It had a barbershop operated by J. Bryson Parker, an early African-American settler in Spokane, who settled in town before 1885 with his wife, Odelia, and their three children.

Demolition

This three-story hotel burned in the Spokane Fire of 08/04/1889.

PCAD id: 21678

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