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Destroying our history

My feedback regarding obliterating a historic Spokane resource-rebuilding Chancery to apartments was a shock!

I recently moved to Spokane, having always enjoyed visiting family here after all these years, watching it develop. It was the big city for this country girl.

My grandparents moved to Spokane in 1930 after their Quincy homestead didn’t follow through. The big town of Spokane promised a better future, and two brothers decided to help with the construction of roads, dams, farm apples and tomatoes, etc. My other two brothers decided Seattle was calling them from shipyards and street cars.

I don’t need to list all the growing pains this wonderful place has gone through. Can’t those apartments be located somewhere still convenient and the Chancery Building be added to history of hotels, Fox Theater, etc., where people from all over the world can recognize that our grand boulevard is part of our northwest history in many different areas?

Thank you Mr. (Morgan W.) Wade (“The Chancery is a gem,” Letters, Dec. 5), for “Timely and Timeless.”

Helen Davenport

Spokane Valley

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