Rand, Loren Leighton | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

RAND, Loren Leighton (1851-1935) of Spokane, Washington was commissioned to design the Leland Hotel, Copper Street at Centre Street, GREENWOOD CITY, B.C. in 1899. The project was commissioned by John W. Powell, a local entrepreneur who was involved in the mining boom in the British Columbia interior (Greenwood Miner, 18 Aug. 1899, 1, descrip.). The hotel, costing $25,000, was one of the largest buildings in Greenwood and was completed in late 1899. It contained 78 rooms, with frontage of nearly 70 ft., and contained three stores on the ground floor.
Rand was born in Amesbury, Mass. on 23 December 1851, but no information on his education or training has been found. He arrived in Washington State after 1885 and was recorded in partnership with John K. Dow in Spokane in 1889-92. From 1893 onward, he maintained an office under his own name. His best-known works in Spokane include the Masonic Temple Auditorium, West Riverside Avenue (1904-05), and The Crescent Building No. 2, a 7 storey Chicago-style loft building at West Main Avenue at North Wall Street, Spokane (1917-19). Rand died in Spokane on 6 October 1935.