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HISTORIC NAME	Robinwood Apartments
COMMON NAME
DATE BUILT	1939
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Charles F. Rider, Designer, Builder & Real Estate Developer
PROPERTY STYLE	Tudor Revival
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - 11/1/04
NATIONAL REGISTER
IN A DISTRICT	pending
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Cliff-Cannon

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Built in 1939, the Robinwood Apartments is significant in the area, “architecture,” as a fine example of the Tudor Revival style. It is one of the best preserved and most remarkably intact apartment residences in Spokane, Washington. The multi-family complex was erected by Chester F. Rider, a noted Spokane builder and real estate developer who founded, owned, and managed the Rider Housing Corporation, and was responsible for the construction of at least six single-family homes and four multi-family apartment complexes on Spokane’s South Hill. During its period of significance from 1939 to 1954, the Robinwood Apartments achieved importance in the area, “community planning & development,” as one of four apartment complexes that was planned, developed, and built by Rider on the hillside area south of Ninth Avenue and along Grand Avenue on Spokane’s South Hill. Associated with prevalent patterns of multi-family residential settlement in Spokane during the 1930s-1940s, the east and west buildings of the Robinwood Apartments, and its terraced inner courtyard design with original brick and basalt rock walls, is architecturally and historically significant.

Credits: Photo and Spokane Register Nomination prepared by Linda Yeomans