Downtown Historic District
1897 – 401 1st Street
This small one-story brick building has seen a variety of businesses during its 125+ year history. Originally built to be a bank it has a reinforced concrete pad for a vault along its eastern wall. The exterior has been altered quite a lot, though the outlines of original widows can still be seen on the F Street side of the building.
1909 – 402/404 1st Street
The building you see today, originally known as the Hansen-Hubbard building was erected in 1909 by Cheneyite, George Yeaman for Charles I. Hubbard and Peter C. Hansen. The one-story brick building was divided into two stores with their entrances facing 1st Street.
1967 – 120 F Street – Owl Pharmacy
Owl Pharmacy is Cheney's oldest business that is still in operation, as well as the third oldest drug store in Washington State. It was established in 1882 and has relocated several times in its long history.
1904 Odd Fellows Building
The Odd Fellows building was dedicated by Cheney Lodge #21 on December 4, 1904.
1947 – 313-317 1st Street
This building at 313-317 1st Street represents "modern" mid-20th century commercial business design. An old wood-frame building had once occupied part of the space, but it had fallen down or been demolished years before. In 1947 this building was erected as a hardware and appliance store. It was split into two retail spaces about 1994, with the basement space opening as a third business in 2007.
Ghosts of Our Past – Ratcliffe Ford and Implement Company
Miles of barb wire, old farm equipment rusting in the boneyards on farms, and acres of tilled soil are evidence of the ghost of the C.A. Ratcliffe Company in our community. The 117-year story of the Ratcliffe Ford Dealership and Ratcliffe Implement Company, involves three locations on a single block of Second Street between College and F.
Winter Camp of Spokane Indians
In 1959, Sam Webb recalled that back in the 1880s a family of Spokane Indians camped on the site of the new Gibson's Grocery (1011 1st Street) every winter. He said the camp was made up of about 10 to 15 teepees. This site is on high ground near the spring of water that gave Cheney its original name of Willow Springs.
Sam came to Cheney as a boy with his family on the first passenger train on the Northern Pacific Railroad line.
The Cheney area is part of the Spokane Tribe of Indians territory. 
