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Building History

This building was in operation in 02/1892. Edward Herbert Jamieson, a lawyer who arrived in Spokane in 1882, established a title company in a two-story building on this site. This load-bearing brick building stood for only 7 years when it was destroyed in the Spokane Fire of 08/04/1889, about two months after Seattle's disastrous fire. As in Seattle, most of Spokane's stock of wood-frame commercial buildings were wiped out in this blaze.

Jamieson rebuilt on the same property, commissioning the German-born architect Herman Preusse (d. 1926) to design this elegant, six-story, Romanesque Revival office and retail building. Jesse Tinsley, writing in the Spokane Spokesman-Review said of the Jamieson Building #2: ""Constructed of bricks, the 1890 Jamieson building featured electric lights, steam heat, elevator service and a sixth-floor dining room – for a total cost of $120,000. Jamieson died in 1909; his investment company managed the building until the 1930s, when it was purchased by Zukor’s, a women’s clothing store." (See Jesse Tinsley, Spokane Spokesman-Review.com, "Photos Then & Now: Corner of Riverside and Wall," published 01/23/2012, accessed 11/05/2018.)

Alteration

Zukor's added a modernized, white facade to the first floor corner of the dark brick builidng.

Demolition

A fire destroyed the Jamieson Building in 1980. Fighting the blaze cost the life of one firefighter. Following the fire, the site was cleared and laid vacant from 1980 until 1994, when the Spokane Transit Authority (STA) built the Plaza Building, its Downtown hub, at 701 NW Riverside Avenue.

PCAD id: 1675