The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-01
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PICTURE OF SPOKANE

able to identify nearly every build
ing shown in the picture. He placed
the time of the taking of the photo
graph between 1881 and 1883. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Drumheller, the first
building on the left hand side of
the picture is the general store of
Frank r. Moore and Charles
Sweeney. The third building is
Rima's jewelry store, and the next
r. w. Forests grocery store. The
old Northern Pacific hotel occupied
the northeast corner of Main ave-
nue. and Howard street, and Mr..
Drumheller was able to pick out
the front of it in the picture.
Next to the pioneer corner" in
the right foreground was Jack
SQuire's saloon, and little farther
up, on the same side of the street,
Mr.. Drumheller was able to pick
out the front of the store he him
self used to conduct, under the
firm name of Wilson & Drumheller.
Just beyond, on the northwest cor
ner of Main and Howard was the
general store of Fredeneich & Berg,
also capable Of being picked out in
the picture.
AT the time the picture was talk
en-" said Mr.. Drumheller, "the Cali
fornia house occupied the site of
the city hall, and opposite, on the
northwest corner of Front and How
ard. was big livery stable. The
photograph, however, does not take
in any part of these two struc-
lures"
Mr., Drumheller accompanied a
representative of The Press over
the ground shown in the picture,
to make sure his Identification of
the various buildings shown by get
ting the lay of the land While
standing on the corner of Front and
Howard. where the photographer
who took the picture evidently
stood, and looking up the street,
Mr.. Drumheller in his minds eye
was able to picture the locality AS
1t was in the early sos.
OLDEST CITY STRUCTURE.
Few people In Spokane, probably,
hHOW W HtIS W llllu tllt OlutSt Cll Nv
ture in the city now standing. Mr..
Drumheller, however, can point it
out, and he took the representative
of The Press to see it. 1t is q
frame dwelling built in 1878 on the
southwest corner Of BERNARD and
Front, but now moved to tho rear
of the property adjoining tho corner
on the west. The Astoria brick
hotel building occupies the original
site. The weatherbeaten old struc-
turc, wellpreserved considering it's
age, is still In use, being used as
n dwelling by one of the proprie-
tors Of row of one-story brick
stores which has been built in front
of 1t. The old relic forms tho rear
addition of the new store structures
and only its roof can be seen from
the street.
1.-The house was built as a resi-
dence for himself by man by the
name of Lowry, in 1875" said Mr..
Drumheller. "A few years after
wards | purchased 1t myself, be.
cause it was one of the only places
in the city that had good well,
and lived there for three years with
my family. Right opposite the
building. as 1t stood then, was the
big lIavermale home. The old
Sacred Heart hospital, now owned
by the Milwaukee railroad, occupies
the site of the Havermale home to-
day"
Probably the next oldest build.
ings now standing are the Falls
View hotel and the Post residence,
Front and Lincoln.
The photograph reminded s.
Heath OF an incident OF the old
times, when w. A. Hunsacker NOV.
ed his general store ont I'm the
woods-in fact, to the corner OF
Riverside avenue and Howard, now
occupied by the Traders bank. This
was an entirely unsettled district
in those days, and Hunsacker was
joshed much about going out in the
suburbs TO do business.
FIRST WATER WORKS."
Mr.. Heath also remembers Spo
kans's first water works--a town
pump located on the corner OF
Front Ard Howard, which would be