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5 S. Cedar Street |
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| Historic Name/Common Name | Buena Vista Apartments | ||||||||||||
| Date Built | 1905 | ||||||||||||
| Architect/Builder | William Bacon & Albert Keats | ||||||||||||
| Date Listed on the Spokane Register | December 4, 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Date Listed on the National Register | July 30, 1976 | ||||||||||||
| Historic District | Riverside Avenue Historic District | ||||||||||||
| Neighborhood | Riverside | ||||||||||||
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Statement of Significance |
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The Buena Vista Apartment buildings were constructed as the Hotel Vallamont (11 S. Cedar) and the Buena Vista Apartments (5 S. Cedar) in 1905. The area in which the structure sits was originally a residential neighborhood near the center of the small town, but as the city's population increased, there was a demand for apartment and hotel space. Several three story structures, both hotel and apartment, were erected. Some were built as luxurious quarters, but others such as these two were for more moderate incomes. This neighborhood was convenient to the expanding downtown office and shopping center and eventually boasted Linden trees on grassy islands in the middle of the wide boulevards, resulting from landscaping suggestions made by noted landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers in their Park Board report to the City of Spokane.
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