Historic Register Tour - Broadview Dairy

HISTORIC NAME	Broadview Dairy
COMMON NAME
DATE BUILT	c. 1910
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	R. Edward Vincent
PROPERTY STYLE	Commercial Vernacular
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 5/17/91
ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER	Yes - added 5/92
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Riverside

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Broadview Dairy was one of several commercial dairy operations established in the Spokane area around the turn of the twentieth century; it is the only local dairy business still in operation. Allen H. Flood, who first arrived in Spokane in 1889, the year of the Great Fire, founded Broadview in 1896-97. Originally from Buxton, Maine, Flood helped survey Hays Park Addition and a part of what is now Hillyard, and also engaged in the lumber business before establishing his dairy. Under Flood’s direction, Broadview Dairy was a leader in campaigns for dairy betterment; it was the first commercial dairy in the state to test for tuberculosis and get rid of infected cows and also led the fight for pasteurization in the Inland Northwest. The operation was known as the Broadview Dairy from its inception to 1946, even though Carnation acquired Broadview in a stock exchange in 1929. Architect R. Edward Vincent designed the building.