page_title: WSU Health Sciences Spokane campus
section_title: Jensen-Byrd Building
hierarchical_section_title: WSU Health Sciences Spokane campus / Buildings / Jensen-Byrd Building
caption_attribution_description: English: A bird's eye view of Spokane, Washington looking north in the mid 1910s. This image is taken from the 1914 textbook, New Geographies by Tarr &amp; McMurphy, published by MacMillan.
context_page_description: The WSU Health Sciences Spokane campus, is an urban 48-acre, multi-institutional higher education campus in Spokane, Washington. The campus was established in 1990 by the Joint Center for Higher Education and has been owned and operated by Washington State University since 1998. It is located within Spokane's University District just east of Downtown Spokane, along the southern bank of the Spokane River across from Gonzaga University.
  Through intensive growth over the last 20 years, Washington State University Spokane has become the primary occupant of the now-eponymously named campus. However, the campus, which was originally developed as the Riverpoint Higher Education Park in the early 1990s by the state-created Joint Center for Higher Education, has been shared between a number of institutions over the years, primarily, Washington State University Spokane and Eastern Washington University Spokane.
context_section_description: Sitting in the middle of the WSU Health Sciences Spokane campus is the Jensen-Byrd Building, also known as the Jensen-Byrd Warehouse.  The six-story, 200,000 square-foot historic brick warehouse was originally constructed in 1909 and has changed hands a number of times over its history.  It was acquired by the WSU Foundation in 2001 and leased back to its prior owner for use until its transfer to Washington State University in 2004 with plans to eventually make the building, or its land, a key part of the campus.  Due to its history and its location in the heart of a rapidly developing campus, the role and future of the building on the campus has been the source of much controversy and seen a number redevelopment proposals for the last couple decades.
  The warehouse was designed by Spokane architect Albert Held for the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company, which was based in Duluth, Minnesota. 
  At the time of its completion, it was one of the largest warehouses in Spokane, and as of today remains the second largest warehouse in Spokane County and one of the largest historic buildings in downtown Spokane.
  Several additions were made to the building over the years, including its eastern annex in 1946 and the Pine Street wing in 1973.
  In 1958, the building landed in the hands of the Jensen-Byrd Co., now known as Jensen Distribution Services, after its acquisition of the Spokane branch of Marshall Wells
caption: The Jensen-Byrd Warehouse as pictured in 1914, located just below and to the left of the smoke stack in the center of the image
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