Before the southeast corner of Riverside Avenue and Howard Street became a parking lot, it was an important retail and office location since 1890. After the great fire of 1889, five buildings as tall ...

From 1890 until the buildings were demolished in 1933, four interconnected buildings wrapped around the southeast corner of Howard Street and Riverside Avenue were simply called the Rookery, the word ...

Jonathan Swanstrom recounts the tale of his son and daughter-in-law, who were among the last tenants in the Rookery Building, running a vintage clothing operation that both sold retail in Spokane and ...

Charles Davidson, co-owner of the Rookery, confirmed to a Times reporter that a new building to replace the fire-damaged Rookery was being designed by architect Edward Langley. When the construction ...