Built in 1928, St. Joseph’s Catholic School Auditorium & Gymnasium is a fine example of the Spanish Eclectic style. Exterior stylistic characteristics are especially illustrated by the building’s rectangular form, multi-colored variegated brick veneer, metal-sash windows, red-colored metal barrel-shaped tiles, and massive roof brackets. The building was planned and erected as part of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, convent, and school, and cost $26,000 to construct. Praised as a well-designed and wellbuilt building with an exceptionally fine decorative veneer of multi-colored bricks, a Spokesman-Review newspaper article claimed the auditorium/gymnasium was the “pride of the parish.” The auditorium/gym represents the work of one of Spokane’s most accomplished professionals, Julius A. Zittel, a prolific architect responsible for the design of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church campus buildings, numerous ecclesiastical and scholastic buildings in the Spokane region, and the design of State-owned buildings when he was appointed Washington’s “state architect” in 1897. 

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