Louis Davenport

ID: 3335
This file appears in: The Davenport Hotel

An undated photo of Louis Davenport, founder of Davenport's Restaurant and Hotel.

Image L85-57.1 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

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…