Historic Register Tour

HISTORIC NAME	Bump Block
COMMON NAME	Hotel Carlyle
DATE BUILT	1890
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Rand & Dow; Preusse & Zittel
PROPERTY STYLE	Romanesque Revival
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 7/31/89
ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER	Yes - added 6/14/00
IN A DISTRICT	Yes - added 8/25/00
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Riverside

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Significant as a Single Room Occupancy Hotel in Spokane’s Central Business District, the Hotel Carlyle, originally known as the Bump Block, was built in 1890 for Eugene A. Routhe, a prominent local businessman and real estate broker, and Gile A. Bump, a carriage manufacturer for whom the building was named. Designed by prominent Spokane architects Loren L. Rand and John K. Dow, the Bump Block housed the Bellevue House Hotel on the upper floors with commercial space on the ground floor, typical of SROs in Spokane. Following the general economic collapse of 1893, the Northwest and Pacific Hypotheekbank foreclosed on the property; both Routhe and Bump were ruined by the depression. Spokane businessman John Heiber acquired title to the building from the bank in 1908, and contracted the renowned architectural firm of Herman Preusse and Julius Zittel to draw plans for an expansion of the building. The refurbished hotel reopened in 1909 as the Hotel Carlyle, which it has remained to the present.