Historic Register Tour - Hill Brothers Building

HISTORIC NAME	Hill Brothers Building
COMMON NAME
DATE BUILT	c. 1890
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Unknown
PROPERTY STYLE
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 12/10/01
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Riverside

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Built in 1890, the Hill Brothers Building is one of the oldest brick commercial buildings in downtown Spokane and was one of the first buildings to be built after the Great Fire of 1889. Located in the heart of the city's downtown business district, the Hill Brothers Building represents the transition from the rough-and-tumble, unrefined early days of downtown Spokane to the city's more mature, refined post-fire downtown retail core. Beginning in 1892, the building was home to the Palace Department Store, one of early Spokane's most successful mercantiles, and from 1909 to 1930 the building was widely known as the retail center for the Hill Brothers Shoe Company, one of the area's longest-operating shoe stores.