Logan Hotel

Logan Hotel

The Logan Hotel was constructed in 1890. By 1913, it was run by a trio of Japanese American partners identified as Maeguchi, Nihonmatsu, and Tejima in this photograph by Ryosuke Akashi. During the 1910s, Japanese businessmen established themselves in downtown Spokane providing services to the city's labor force. The Logan Hotel at that time would have primarily served laborers working on railroads, in mills, and other businesses requiring manual labor. In 1917, United States law enforcement conducted a raid of an I.W.W. operation (International Workers of the World) based in one of the Logan Hotel's rooms. The I.W.W. was extremely active amongst migrant and industrial laborers of the time, sparking a series of large protests across the United States including in Spokane in 1909. For the Japanese American community, the offices of dentist Ben Kohno and physician K.T. Yamada ran out of a room in the hotel in the 1910s.

Ryosuke Akashi,

Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Joel E. Ferris Research Archives, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

1913

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Black and white photographs

L2003-11.28