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The Spokane House Interpretive Center tells the story of Spokane House , an historic fur trade era trading post fort, the earliest permanent non-Indian settlement in Washington State. It's also about the lives of the Spokane Indians who lived here and the first European people to meet them and live among them. The Spokane House post was home to several fur trappers and traders for many years, and it was a poignant symbol of cultural commerce, cooperation, and the changes coming to the region.

Location:
Approximately 9.5 miles northwest of Spokane on Highway 291 (Nine Mile Road), one-half mile north of Charles Road (the Nine Mile Falls Dam bridge). Watch for the entrance in the woods on the left.

Hours of Operation
As funding allows, the Spokane House Interpretive Center is normally open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Monday, from Memorial Day through Labor Day. If the center is closed, please call (509) 465-5064 to receive schedule updates or to make arrangements for other times to tour the facility. Admisson is free, with donations encouraged to offset the cost of the upkeep of the facility and to help us produce better exhibits and ongoing demonstrations.

Future Plans:
Keep coming back as new information and new displays are always being added. Summertime brings living history events to the Spokane House fort site.

Virtual Tour: by clicking through each step below, you will visit the majority of the displays at the Spokane House interpretive center. The steps do not give you all of the detail found in the displays, only a taste of what the displays entail. The photos will take about 30 to 40 seconds to load (at 28.8), and about 15 - 20 seconds at 56.6, for each step. The virtual tour also does not include the friendly park interpreter. Come visit the center to get the full experience and to study the details.