Built in 1911, the Knickerbocker Apartments is a large, residential, multi-family apartment building located in the center of a busy health center and medical community in Spokane, Washington. The property is a steel-reinforced, three-story building clad in red face brick with black mortar, and is opulently embellished in fine, crème-colored, glazed terra cotta with Beaux Arts-style influence. The apartment building is designed in the shape of an "H" with a center courtyard at the front of the building and a lush garden hidden in a walled courtyard at the rear of the building. The Knickerbocker Apartments was added with three other apartment buildings (Ammann, Breslin & San Marco) to the National Register of Historic Places under a thematic nomination for apartment buildings designed by Albert Held, a well-known architect who designed many of Spokane’s best-known structures. Located in close proximity to downtown, Held’s apartment buildings were among the first structures in Spokane designed and built exclusively as apartments. They were elegantly designed with wealthy tenants in mind; mining magnate and civic leader Graham B. Dennis, the owner of the Knickerbocker, spent $200,000 on the building, which he lived in, and expected from Held the “finest apartment house west of New York.”

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