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The Bear Frame &
Axle
Garage has been a public service automobile garage for 73 years since
its construction and is listed as a contributing property in the
National Register East Downtown Spokane Historic District. The structure
is an excellent example of the industrial garage building type that
evolved due to local, state, and national transportation trends that
spurred the construction of hundreds of thousands of similar garages
across the country. With original Art Deco-style detailing especially
seen on the building's facade in pyramidal parapet corner projections
and pilaster chevron motifs, the design of the garage is typical of
public service garages built during the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s in
Spokane. Escaping demolition by the wrecking ball, the Bear Frame
& Axle Garage is the only surviving garage on Block 2 in the
Havermale Park Addition, which was once the site of three
garages. Beginning in 1947, the Bear Frame & Axel
Service Company leased the garage for 48 years until 1995, at which time
the Sylvan Furniture Company occupied the premises for use as a garage
and storage facility. The Lang family owned the property and then
sold it to the Sylvan and Eleanor Dreifus in 1968.
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