Built in 1907, the Leland Hotel was constructed during the city’s most significant period of growth, from 1900 to 1910. In the commercial vernacular style and as a downtown single room occupancy hotel (SRO), the Leland Hotel is a foundational property type in downtown Spokane’s progression. The Leland (also known as the New Linden) operated continuously as a lower-to-middle income residential hotel/apartment from its construction in 1907 to 1980, after which it was remodeled and has continued in a residential use since. The Hotel Leland was one of many such hotels and apartment buildings that filled the downtown blocks on the east, south, and west of the business core. The Leland Hotel was built for Eugene B. Hyde, the city’s first marshal and police chief (1881-1885), organizer of the city’s first volunteer fire department, a city commissioner, and a state senator. Architecturally, the four-story buff brick building is a good example in the downtown of a mid-block vernacular apartment building/residential hotel. With commercial use on the ground floor and apartments above, the building was a classic SRO. Its basalt rubble and brick foundation, symmetrical brick façade, voussoired flat-arched window bays, pronounced pressed tin sills, keystones and cornice, are characteristic commercial building features of the first decade of the 20th century.

The Leland Hotel is a contributing property within the East Downtown Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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