AKA: Tidball Block, Spokane, WA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Rand and Dow, Architects (firm); John Kennedy Dow (architect); Loren Leighton Rand (architect)
Dates: constructed 1889
4 stories
The newly-formed firm of Rand and Dow designed the Tidball Block shortly after Spokane experienced its destructive fire of 08/04/1889. According to State Architectural Historian Michael Houser, The Tidball Block was the "...first four-story building constructed after the downtown fire." (See Michael Houser, "John K. Dow 1862 - 1961,"
PCAD id: 19326