Built in 1901 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
From the record
“The Spokane Club Building-Legion Building is a historic five-story building in Spokane, Washington. Dow in the Renaissance Revival style, and built by Peter Peterson in 1901 for businessman F.”
Wikipedia article Spokane Club Building-Legion Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 159 National Register listings published here for Spokane County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1901, Renaissance Revival architecture, by John K. Dow.
National Register reference number.94000800- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
338 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Spokane Club Building-Legion Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,690 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 54 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
95
Recreation and ceremony
85
Arson/incendiarism
54
Misuse of fire by a minor
32
Fireworks
18
Debris and open burning
14
Smoking
13
Railroad operations and maintenance
11
Other causes
5
Natural
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
9 September 2020
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
EQUESTRIAN
7 September 2011
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
AUBREY L. WHITE
7 September 1994
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
7 September 1994
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 September 2018
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
ESMERALDA
5 September 2017
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
COURTLAND
4 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
I 90
4 September 2008
Other causes
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
27 workings within 5 miles of Spokane Club Building-Legion Building: 25 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Spokane, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 7 flood, 4 heavy rain.
The reports record 23 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
During the afternoon of September 19th an isolated rain shower with small hail moved over the Spokane area. On the westbound lane of Interstate 90 drivers were blinded by the low sun shining in their eyes while small hail created slippery conditions. Over 50 cars and trucks were involved in numerous accidents and pileups along a four mile stretch of westbound I-90 in the city of Spokane.
Lightning striking a power line caused a fire which spread to a nearby house, gutting it and damaging another neighboring house. Time estimated from radar data.
Numerous roads flooded in south hill and along and near the i-90 corridor. Several reports of basement flooding with some residences seeing water approach the doors. Multiple vehicles stalled in water, and one driver required assistance in being evacuated. Some neighborhood roads were temporarily closed and had standing water for hours.
City of Spokane crews removed 26 downed trees from residential city streets and one arterial as a result of thunderstorm winds that measured at 60 mph at the Spokane Airport.
Several businesses along Howard Street near the intersection of 2nd Avenue were flooded when heavy rain overwhelmed the city's storm drains. Water was spilling back into buildings through toilets and drain pipes. Among the businesses were The Interplayers Theatre and Howard Street Boxing.
Extremely localized swath of wind speeds estimated at 55-68 mph resulted in several trees uprooted/blown down in Audubon neighborhood including Audubon Elem, through intersection of Chelan Ave/Ash Street with minor damage noted. Spokane Airport recorded a gusts of 49 mph at 1535 PST.
Several portable business signs in Cheney were blown over. In Spokane, large tree limbs were blown down into Grand Boulevard near Manito Park, blocking traffic for a time. Further east, several trees were blown down throughout the Spokane Valley. One tree fell into Bigelow Gulch Road, blocking traffic there for a time. A trained spotter in Otis Orchards measured a wind gust to 61 mph (53 knots) with several larger tree limbs down in that area. Avista Utilities reported about three dozen power outages caused by either trees blowing into power lines or wind blowing over power lines.
Lightning struck a house on Spokane's South Hill starting a fire. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire but the home did sustain heavy fire damage to a small portion of the attic and to the ceiling in one second floor bedroom.
Heavy rain caused flooding in stairwells and onto the stage at the Martin Woldson Fox Theater. The front entrance area was also inundated and caused the cancellation of a scheduled concert.
Snow melt and heavy rain along with failing rubber seal in the area caused localized flooding under the Interstate 90 overpass near Monroe Street. 1.25 inches of rain fell in the area.
Low spots on Maple Street under I-90 flooded with standing water from heavy rains. Water was estimated to be under a foot deep. Several other areas around Spokane experienced standing water. Many of these were in known problem spots with poor drainage.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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