San Marco Apartments 1229 W. Riverside Avenue

HISTORIC NAME	San Marco Apartments
COMMON NAME	San Marco Apartments
DATE BUILT	1904
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Albert Held
PROPERTY STYLE	Second Rennaissance Revival
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	No
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	Yes - added 2/12/87
DISTRICT	Riverside Avenue Historic District
NEIGHBORHOOD	Riverside

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The San Marco is a contributing building in the Riverside Avenue National Historical District.  Its builder and owner George C. Beck intended it to be "one of the most elegant, expensive buildings" in Spokane, "with flats to lease to the upper crust."  To that end he contracted Albert Held, one of Spokane's premier architects, to design the building, and hired Fred Phair, a leading local builder trained at the Cooper Institute in New York, to build it in 1904.  The building is architecturally significant for its association with Held and as a superior example of his work.  It was listed on the National Register in 1986 as part of a multiple property nomination for apartment buildings in Spokane designed by Held together with three others: The Breslin, the Amman, and the Knickerbocker.

Credits: Photo by Tim Cannan, 2002

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Last Date Modified: December 20, 2005