Historic Properties of Spokane
Engelhorn Hotel
The 1907 Engelhorn/Danmor Apartment Building is significant for its construction during the city’s most significant period of growth, 1900 to 1910. As an early downtown residential hotel/apartment building, the Danmor is a variation of a multi-tenant residential property type in southeast downtown. In the commercial vernacular style, the interior of the building has transitioned over the years in the number and type of living units. The Engelhorn, then Danmor, operated continuously as a lower-to-middle income apartment building/hotel/boarding house from its construction in 1907 to ca. 2014, after which it was listed as vacant. The three-story brick and basalt building is an excellent example in the downtown of a midblock vernacular apartment building/residential hotel. Its basalt rubble and brick foundation, simply detailed brick façade, and segmental-arched window bays are typical of early 1900s residential buildings at the edge of the downtown business core




