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Significant
as a Single Room Occupancy Hotel in Spokane’s Central Business
District, the Hotel Carlyle, originally known as the Bump Block, was
built in 1890 for Eugene A. Routhe, a prominent local businessman and
real estate broker, and Gile A. Bump, a carriage manufacturer for whom
the building was named. Designed
by prominent Spokane architects Loren L. Rand and John K. Dow, the Bump
Block housed the Bellevue House Hotel on the upper floors with
commercial space on the ground floor, typical of SROs in Spokane.
Following the general economic collapse of 1893, the Northwest
and Pacific Hypotheekbank foreclosed on the property; both Routhe and
Bump were ruined by the depression.
Spokane businessman John Heiber acquired title to the building
from the bank in 1908, and contracted the renowned architectural firm of
Herman Preusse and Julius Zittel to draw plans for an expansion of the
building. The refurbished
hotel reopened in 1909 as the Hotel Carlyle, which it has remained to
the present.
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