The farm of Wenatchee pioneer Conrad Rose is seen in the early 1890s, along South Miller Street across from Wenatchee High School. The Conrad Rose family lived in what is known as the Conrad Rose Home at 21 South Chelan Ave.

This Wenatchee street scene from the 1940s was taken near the intersection of Wenatchee Avenue and Miller Street, looking northeast. The building at the far right housed the Igloo Tavern, which would later move across the street. A Mobil gas station is on the left and between the streets is …

Slabs of broken concrete are pushed into piles by excavating equipment at East Wenatchee's $228,000 arterial grading project on Main Street, now Valley Mall Parkway, in July, 1970. Moore Sanitary Construction Co. of Wenatchee was the prime contractor on the state-assisted urban project.

Part of Wenatchee is pictured during the winter of 1915-16, looking west with the Cascade Mountains in the distance. The Columbia River, not dammed in this section until the construction of Rock Island Dam, flows free in the historic photograph.

This February, 1913 photograph shows the construction of a large ice house by the newly incorporated Wenatchee Natural Ice Co. Located near the northwest corner of Spokane Street and Wenatchee Avenue, the completed building was 60 by 80 feet and 30 feet high with six rooms. About 25 carloads…

Heavy snow piles up along Cottage Avenue on a winter's day in Cashmere between the years 1913 and 1914. This scene is looking west near Woodring Avenue.

Decked out for Christmas, the Elberta Hotel, located on the northeast corner of Mission and Palouse Streets, was a prominent landmark in early Wenatchee. The wood-frame building was constructed in 1895. It was known as the Bell Hotel before becoming the Elberta in 1902. The owners were broth…

The abandoned Pioneer Hotel building at 36 N. Mission St., the corner of First and Mission Streets, was Wenatchee's first real hospital. It was operated from 1912 to 1922. Constructed in 1908, part of the building was originally used by the Sprague Undertaking Parlors. At the outset, the hos…

This is South Wenatchee Avenue as it appeared in 1925 looking toward the north. The street was paved with wooden blocks that were replaced in the early 1930s. The first building at the left is the Warren Building. The J.C. Penney Company was housed in the one-story structure to the south of …