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Built
in 1908, the Pine Creek Dairy Creamery building is a good example of
early commercial/industrial brick masonry blocks that were built
throughout east downtown Spokane, Washington during the early 1900s.
The Pine Creek Dairy was noted in a Spokesman-Review
newspaper article as the “largest producer of milk in the territory”
in 1909.
The dairy comprised a rural
dairy farm with milking operations that supported 120 cows, and a
creamery building at 168 S. Division Street in Spokane.
The creamery building housed the dairy’s office, warehouse,
distribution sales center, and processing plant, which manufactured
cream, butter, and cheese. The
dairy was owned and operated by William C. Sohns, who was regarded as
one of Spokane’s most trusted and influential dairymen.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a
contributing property in the East Downtown Spokane National Register
Historic District, the Pine Creek Dairy Creamery building achieved
significance from 1908 to 1930 in the areas of significance,
“commerce,” “industry,” and “community planning &
development,” for its association with the industrial development and
settlement of East Downtown Spokane, and for its contributions to the
Spokane region as one of the area’s largest and most successful
dairies. A tangible reminder of Spokane’s early commercial and
industrial beginnings, the Pine Creek Dairy Creamery building is one of
seven contributing two-story brick masonry industrial buildings located
in the historic district, an area populated with mostly three and
four-story buildings that served as warehouses or early single room
occupancy hotels. Continually
threatened by new commercial encroachment, historic architecture in the
district has been demolished as evidenced by parking lots and new
construction that now surround the Pine Creek Dairy Creamery building.
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