The Shoe Repair-Barber Shop Building is a small, one-story hollow clay tile building with raked red brick veneer on the facade. This simple building is highlighted with a paneled frieze on the upper portion of the facade. The original storefront configuration is intact with original wood transoms, display windows, and recessed entrance. From 1925 to 1975, the building continuously housed a variety of shoe repair and barber shops.

The community of Hillyard developed as a "railroad town" for the hundreds of workers and their families who were employed at the Great Northern Railroad's western regional terminal facility, which was noted as the internationally acclaimed rail yard that at one time manufactured the heaviest and most powerful steam locomotives in the world. The huge rail yard was constructed in 1892, the same year Hillyard was planned and platted. Stimulated by the enormous success of the rail center, the town of Hillyard thrived in its location adjacent to the Great Northern yard. The Spokane Register Hillyard Historic Business District was the market place and pulse beat of the community and provided the town's necessary staples, sundries, and services such as food, clothing, shelter, business enterprise, and places for socializing.

The Shoe Repair-Barber Shop Building is a contributing property in the Hillyard Historic Business District which was listed on the Spokane Register in 2003 and the National Register in 2002.

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