Empire Hotel
Joao Ignacio was born in the Azores in the late 1830s and headed to America in his teens. Joao, who Anglicized his name to John Enos but was also known as “Portuguese Joe”, headed to California to look for gold, then to British Columbia for the same reason, but eventually settled in Lincoln County, Washington, amassing a farm and cattle ranch of more than 3000 acres. When he retiredin 1910, he traded his land for a new Spokane business, the Empire Hotel at Riverside and Division.
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