Davenport's Restaurant, 1908

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This file appears in: The Davenport Hotel

Taken not long before the Spokesman Review would make public Davenport's plan for a new hotel, this photograph shows what the block looked like before the hotel was built.

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: The Davenport Hotel

By Ian Reeves
The Davenport Hotel was the brainchild of restauranteur/entrepreneur Louis Davenport. Davenport was not a Spokane native, but he found himself in Spokane shortly after the great fire of 1889. Davenport lent his hand to the cleanup and…