Commercial Historic District (Potlatch, Idaho)
Commercial Historic District | |
Administration building / Potlatch City Hall | |
| Location | Roughly Pine St. between Seventh and Fifth Sts., Potlatch, Idaho |
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| Coordinates | 46°55′17″N 116°54′04″W / 46.921340°N 116.901103°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1906 |
| Architect | White, C. Ferris; Homes, AM |
| MPS | Potlatch MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 86002201 |
| Added to NRHP | September 11, 1986 |
The Commercial Historic District in Potlatch, Idaho was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. In 1986, it included seven contributing buildings and a contributing object. It includes work by architect C. Ferris White and work by A.M. Homes.
It includes seven buildings of the administrative center of historic Potlatch, which was a company town of the Potlatch Lumber Company, plus some additional objects. Specifically, it includes:
- Washington. Idaho and Montana Railway Depot (1906), a two-story west-facing building, the first major building completed in Potlatch, designed by C. Ferris White
- Gymnasium building (1916), a two-story frame building designed by architect A. M. Holmes, the largest building in Potlatch. South facing, with a gambrel roof, it has an open porch on its east, south, and west sides supported by 16 Doric columns.
- Implement Store, a two-story frame building with a gambrel roof. Served as storage warehouse for the lumber company's Townsite Department, the maintenance department for the town.
- Administrative Office (1917), a two-and-one-half-story frame building which was the main administrative office building for the lumber company, and in the 1950s became city hall.
- Storage Building, a two-and-one-half-story building with a metal roof on a concrete foundation
- Produce Cellar (1910 or 1911), with capacity for 25 railroad carloads, a 40 feet (12 m) by 60 feet (18 m) structure built into the side of a hill, with brick walls and a metal gambrel roof.
- Creamery (probably 1906), a one-story building with a hipped metal roof, sided with clapboard, west-facing, adjacent to the depot building to its south.
- a large boulder monument to William Deary
- Engine 1 of the Washington, Idaho and Montana Railway.
The city of Potlatch offers a free walking tour guide, "A Walking Tour of the Potlatch Commercial District" at the city hall, at 195 6th Street. The guide is provided by the Potlatch Historical Society.