Then and now: Jensen-Byrd Warehouse

The Jensen-Byrd warehouse on Main Avenue was first built as a storage facility for the Marshall-Wells Company in 1909. Today, it’s part of the WSU campus in the University District.

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Sun., Oct. 6, 2019

Workers prepare to add a wing onto the 1909 Marshall-Wells warehouse at 131 E. Main Ave. in this 1946 photo. The hardware company, which had taken over the Holley-Mason building in 1931, had leased out the building to the U.S. Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. In 1946, the company negotiated an end to the federal government’s lease and traded the Holley-Mason building for the larger warehouse.

Photo Courtesy Of The Northwest Museum Of Arts And Culture Sr
The six-story Marshall-Wells Hardware warehouse on East Main Avenue is seen in downtown Spokane in this Oct. 5, 2019, photo. The building now belongs to the WSU Spokane campus, part of the University District.

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