Then and now: Old City Hall

Spokane built a new City Hall in 1894. With three-story building of brick and granite with twin turrets and many dormers on the roofline reflecting the city’s optimism. The Rotary Fountain and the Carousel sit in that location in Riverfront Park. A fire station, police station and city jail were attached.

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Sun., Feb. 9, 2020

Now called the “old” City Hall, the building at Wall Street and Spokane Falls Boulevard seen here in 1928 was erected after the city agreed to sell their 1894 City Hall to railroad companies who were developing a new downtown train station downtown.

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Present day: The 1913 City Hall building at the corner of Wall St. and Spokane Falls Boulevard housed city offices from its opening until employees moved across the street to the new City Hall, which was the former Montgomery Ward department store building, in 1982. This building, designed by Hermann Preusse and Julius Zittel, was planned and built somewhat hastily as the city had a deadline to move out of the first city hall built in 1894.

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