Historic Register Tour - Hotel Vallamont

HISTORIC NAME	Hotel Vallamont
COMMON NAME	Buena Vista Apartments
DATE BUILT	c. 1905
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	William Albert Keats
PROPERTY STYLE
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 12/4/91
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	Yes - District
DISTRICT	Riverside Avenue Historic District
NEIGHBORHOOD	Riverside

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Buena Vista Apartment buildings were constructed as the the Hotel Vallamont (11 S. Cedar) and the Buena Vista Apartments (5 S. Cedar) in 1905. The area in which the structure sits was originally a residential neighborhood near the center of the small town, but as the city's population increased, there was a demand for apartment and hotel space. Several three story structures, both hotel and apartment, were erected. Some were built as luxurious quarters, but others such as these two were for more moderate incomes. This neighborhood was convenient to the expanding downtown office and shopping center and eventually boasted Linden trees on grassy islands in the middle of the wide boulevards, resulting from landscaping suggestions made by noted landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers in their Park Board report to the City of Spokane.