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HISTORIC NAME	Hotel Alger-Bristol Hotel
COMMON NAME	Same
DATE BUILT	c. 1904
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Unknown
PROPERTY STYLE
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes--added 08/04/2003
ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	Yes - Historic District
DISTRICT	Yes
NEIGHBORHOOD	East Downtown Historic District

STATEMENT OF SIGNFICANCE

Built in 1904, the Hotel Alger-Bristol provided housing needs for hundreds of Spokane's working class citizens for more than 75 years and is a typical example of the property type "single room occupancy hotel". The hostelry was known as Hotel Alger until 1916 when the name was changed to the Bristol Hotel. In 1974 the named was changed to the Bristol Apartments and listed twenty-seven tenants; all men. Except for the hotel lobby, most of the first floor of the Hotel Alger-Bristol Hotel was dedicated to commercial and retail space. Various tenants have leased the first floor bays over the years but the hotel rooms on the second and third floors were gutted in the 1970s'. The hotel was constructed for Reginald K. Neill, a prominent Spokane mining magnate, real estate developer, and downtown merchant who owned the hotel until 1920 whereby the property was sold to John Enos. The Enos family retained ownership of the property until 1946 and then sold it to the the Oriards for $40,000. Various owners have since owned the hotel. The hotel was recently purchased and renovated by real estate developer Rob Brewster.