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The Commercial Historic District in Potlatch, Idaho, United States, 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. 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. 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.
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Commercial Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1986.
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