Kettenbach Building

Kettenbach Building (HM2AGU)

Location: Lewiston, ID 83501 Nez Perce County
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N 46° 25.285', W 117° 1.838'

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H.C. Kettenbach, Lewiston businessman, built this block in about 1907, probably to replace an earlier Kettenbach building which had housed a pioneer Lewiston newspaper, the Lewiston Teller. Lewiston City Officies occupied the building in its earlier years. There was a large store and room for four smaller business on the ground floor. On the upper floor was the Kettenbach European Hotel. Later, under new management it became the Princess Hotel, one of several bordellos which in the Twenties and Thirties lined Main Street west of 5th.

The building features imported cast iron fronts and oriel, or bay, windows. It is said that during the Twenties the "ladies of the night" draped in the bay windows and smiling at those below attracted potential customers. The city closed the houses of prostitution early in World War II at the insistence of the Navy which had a training unit at the Northern Idaho College of Education, later Lewis-Clark State College.
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HM NumberHM2AGU
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Placed ByLewiston Historic Preservation Commission
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Date Added Thursday, August 16th, 2018 at 11:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)11T E 497646 N 5140871
Decimal Degrees46.42141667, -117.03063333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 46° 25.285', W 117° 1.838'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds46° 25' 17.1" N, 117° 1' 50.28" W
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Area Code(s)208
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling East
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 128 Main St, Lewiston ID 83501, US
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