Then and Now: Wilson’s Waffle House
Tuart D. Wilson’s business acumen didn’t stop with restaurants. He invested in real estate, sold Frisbie Maple Syrup, and owned Prudential Distributors, Plymouth Realty and the BBB Tavern. He later opened two more waffle houses, one farther east on Main Avenue and a third at the northeast corner of Stevens Street and Sprague Avenue, inside White’s Hotel.
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1932: Wilson's Restaurant, in White’s Hotel, is shown on the northeast corner of Sprague Avenue and Stevens Street, just south of the Paulsen Building. The block is where city father James Glover’s home once stood. Stuart D. Wilson owned three waffle house restaurants at one time in the downtown area between 1918 and 1951. The 1905 hotel building belonged to Joseph A. White, Wilson's father-in-law.
Eastern Washington Historical Society Sr
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2015 – The northeast corner of Stevens Street and Sprague Avenue has been a parking lot since 1975, but before that it was the home of the White’s Hotel building, starting in 1905. The restaurant in the hotel was Wilson’s Restaurant, which many referred to as Wilson’s Waffle House.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review