Commission Building   216 W. Pacific Avenue

HISTORIC NAME	Commission Building
COMMON NAME	Commission Building
DATE BUILT	1906
ARCHITECT/BUILDER
PROPERTY STYLE	Commercial Vernacular
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	No
NATIONAL REGISTER	Yes - added 3/25/85
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Riverside

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Commission Building was built for the Rasher-Kingman-Herrin Company in 1906 by local builder James M. Geraghty in the heart of Spokane's Produce District.  The company was created when Henry M. Herrin's wholesale fruit and produce company merged with partners C.E. Kingman and Huber Rasher.  The Rasher-Kingman-Herrin Co. remained until it relocated 1915.  The Roundup Fisheries Company, later Roundup Grocery, occupied the Commission Building from 1919 into the 1950s, when it built a new headquarters to the east.  The Commission Building also housed the Independent Grocers Association Headquarters during the 1930s.  More recently, the building has been converted to condominiums.

Credits:  Photo by Tim Cannan, 2002

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Last Date Modified: December 15, 2005