Hospitals

Sacred Heart Hospital, 101 W. Eighth, c. 1916.  Sacred Heart was Spokane's first hospital, founded by the Sisters of Providence in 1886.  Their first hospital building was on Front (later Trent, now Spokane Falls boulevard) near Browne.

Another view of Sacred Heart Hospital, c. 1911.  Construction of this building was completed in 1910 at a cost of $800,000.  It has evolved into the present-day Sacred Heart Medical Center.

St Luke's Hospital, Summit Boulevard and A Street, opened in Spokane as the Spokane Protestant Sanitarium in 1897.  This hospital building was build in 1904.

St. Luke's Hospital and its Sunken garden, c. 1913.  The year after it opened,  a new wing, shown in this picture, was added due to crowded conditions.

Hydropathic Sanitarium, 204 W. Indiana Ave., c. 1912.