Montgomery Ward Building 808 W. Spokane Falls Boulevard

HISTORIC NAME	Montgomery Ward Building
COMMON NAME	Spokane City Hall
DATE BUILT	c. 1929
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Unknown
PROPERTY STYLE	Art Deco
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 6/2/86
NATIONAL REGISTER	Yes - added 5/16/80
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Riverside

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Designed by the Montgomery Ward engineering department and built by Wells Brothers of Chicago, the Montgomery Ward Building is historically as well as architecturally significant.  The building represents an important chapter in the history of American commerce and stands as the first local example of the Art Deco style that was popular, albeit briefly, across the nation at the time.  Montgomery Ward remained in the building until it moved to a new store on Division in 1978.  The following year the city purchased the building and converted it into the City Hall.

Credits: Photo by Tim Cannan, 2002

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Last Date Modified: December 19, 2005