Knickerbocker Apartments 501-507 S. Howard Avenue

HISTORIC NAME	Knickerbocker Apartments
COMMON NAME	Knickerbocker Apartments
DATE BUILT	c. 1911
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Albert Held
PROPERTY STYLE
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	No
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	Yes - added 2/12/87
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Cliff/Cannon

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Together with three other apartment buildings, the Knickerbocker Apartments was added to the National Register of Historic Places under a thematic nomination for apartment buildings designed by Albert Held, a well-known architect who designed many of Spokane’s best-known structures.  Located in close proximity to downtown, Held’s apartment buildings were among the first structures in Spokane designed and built exclusively as apartments.  They were elegantly designed with wealthy tenants in mind; mining magnate and civic leader Graham E. Dennis, the owner of the Knickerbocker, spent $200,000 on the building, which he lived in, and expected from Held the “finest apartment house west of New York.”

Credits: Photo by Tim Cannan, 2002

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Last Date Modified: December 16, 2005