Holley-Mason Hardware Building 157 S. Howard Street

HISTORIC NAME	Holley-Mason Hardware Building
COMMON NAME	Holley-Mason Building
DATE BUILT	c. 1905
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Albert Held
PROPERTY STYLE	Beaux Arts/Neoclassical, Commercial Vernacular
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 12/14/98
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	Yes - added 10/13/83
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Riverside

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Designed by the locally prominent architect Albert Held, the Holley-Mason Building was the first reinforced concrete building erected in the city of Spokane.  Even more significantly, it is one of the very earliest reinforced concrete buildings in the entire state.  Due to its early use of this new technology, the Holley-Mason Building was also advertised as the city's first "fireproof" building.

Credits:  Photo by Tim Cannan, 2002

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Last Date Modified: December 15, 2005