Built in 1911, the Gorham-Revere Rubber Company (United States Rubber Company) building exemplifies both the position of Spokane as a rail freight center for the Inland Northwest and as a burgeoning automobile center as located within the First Avenue auto row that evolved during the 1920s. Built to house and distribute tires and other rubber products, the building is heavily associated with the evolution of the automobile and automotive equipment sales and service business in Spokane. Tires and rubber products were received from the rails, and distributed to the automobile and farm implement dealers that occupied the rail corridor bracketed by First and Second avenues. The building served an integral role to the growing automobile business as a distribution point for automobile tires, and serviced the auto supply shops and dealerships in the downtown district until World War II. The United States Rubber Company building also represents the work of prominent but seemingly little known architect Carl H. Jabelonsky. Jabelonsky, who trained as a civil engineer in Europe before coming to Spokane, was noted for his industrial buildings and concrete and steel structure skyscrapers in New York City and East Coast.

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