Local History Walking Tour | Historic Downtown Harrison
The Harrison Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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Revised 2/24/16
--To see map locations, please click on the building names--
Click on business names for websites or Facebook pages of current occupants
Revised 2/24/16
1 - GRANT MILL / GATEWAY MARINA
250 W Harrison St, Harrison, ID 83833 | 208-689-9800 Access: Business & Public. Lakeside Bar and Grill at Gateway Marina, C-Store, and HI Water Adventures boat rentals. Public docks. Site of the former Grant Lumber Co. There was a boat launch and small dock here in the 1950s. A large crowd gathered in 1961, to watch old pilings dynamited and cleared in preparation for hydro-plane races and the Old Time Picnic...read more
2 - E.C. HAY & SONS GRAIN ELEVATOR
National Register of Historic Places 107 N. Lake Ave. between Pine St. and Garfield St., Harrison, ID 83833 Access: Private Harrison Elevator #775 was built by E.C. Hay and Sons of Tekoa, WA, with the help of local laborers. Watching the progress of the wood crib structure rising ever higher was an intriguing pastime for the townspeople during the spring of 1955...read more
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3 - THEATER / HARRISON HEATING
National Register of Historic Places 103 N. Coeur d'Alene Ave., Harrison, ID 83833 Access: Business. Harrison Heating The original opera house, called the Princess Theater, owned and managed by B. S. Laferty, had a 25" x 20' stage and seated 400. In 1916, the theater heralded the arrival of spectacular and educational talking movies, and a large crowd showed up...read more
4 - MASONIC LODGE / GRANT BUILDING
National Register of Historic Places Access: Businesses. The Company Store, Bird's Nest , Laundromat, Commercial Storage Units. The original brick structure was built by the Masons in 1912, who had their meeting hall upstairs. Groceries were sold on the street level at the Davis N. Shuster Store. The building was destroyed in the 1917 fire...read more
5 - BUSINESS BLOCK / CITY PARK
National Register of Historic Places Access: Public. Harrison City Park The City Park encompasses all of Block 2 of the original town plat. Prior to the 1917 fire the block contained ten wood frame commercial structures. None of them were ever rebuilt. Various lots passed to the county for unpaid taxes in the 1920s and 30s...read more
6 - I.O.O.F HALL / HARRISON BUILDING
National Register of Historic Places 200 S. Coeur d'Alene Ave., Harrison, ID 83833 Access: Businesses & Private. One Shot Charlie's saloon and The Cafe on the lower level. The Gallery in Harrison, O'Susanna's Design Studio, Grubby Girls Soap, and Tin Cup Coffee Shop are on the mid level. Residence upstairs. The International Order of Odd Fellows building was the first substantial one erected after the 1917 fire. The main street level has held a mercantile, meat locker, post office, barbershop, hardware store, cafe, and a sewing machine manufacturer. The upper level, with its high ceilings, hardwood
floors, and large windows, has housed a theater, dentist office, and restaurant...read more 7 - FISHER'S JEWELRY
202 S. Coeur d'Alene Ave., Harrison, ID 83833. Vacant lot between the Harrison Building and Gig's Landing. Access: Private Property. (Empty Lot) Fisher's Jewelry stood here in the 1920s. It later became a real estate office. In 2003 the building was destroyed by fire during the Old Time Picnic weekend.
8 - STAR LODGING / GIG'S LANDING
204 S. Coeur d'Alene Ave., Harrison, ID 83833 Access: Business & Private. Gig's Landing restaurant. Residence upstairs. Built in 1917 as Star Lodging, the building changed hands in 1943 when the Rose family relocated the Rose Cafe from the I.O.O.F. building. There were three gas pumps in front and auto repair was offered in the basement...read more
9 - FIRST BANK OF HARRISON / CREAMERY
206 S. Coeur d'Alene Ave., Harrison, ID 83833 Access: Business. The Harrison Creamery & Fudge Factory. The locally-owned First Bank of Harrison was housed here until the business moved to St. Maries in 1923...read more
Dr. John Busby built this grand Victorian home in 1904. He sold it, presumably to finance building the Harrison Hospital on Garfield St., and a floating hospital, with which he served patients in the St. Joe River country...read more
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