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The three-story L'Amourita Apartment Building is an example of the West Coast transmission of the Mission Revival Style, a mode made popular in California during the 1890s and early 1900s; by 1909, the year of the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, new ideas and new styles were filtering into what was an isolated provincial city. Adolph J. Jarmuth commissioned the design of this apartment building that originally had only 8 large units, each with 7-9 rooms. (By the mid-20th century, this number had risen to 21 apartments.) Seattle investors built a significant number of apartment buildings around 1909, as they anticipated a flood of new settlers after the Exposition.

The apartment building itself had an appraised value of $1,134,500 in 2007; the land was appraised at an additional $1,534,500. The building uses natural gas to fire the hot water heating system. In some portions of the building, concrete walls are 22 inches thick. There are 21 apartments currently in the co-op, each with an average size of 1,037 square feet. The lot covers 17,050 square feet (0.39 acres), and the building contains 21,786 square feet.

PCAD id: 4900