Owner works to remove collapsed wall

The collapsed wall at the Palouse Arms building is being demolished. The wall was built in 1920 and fell unexpectedly last month.

A part of a building is in the process of coming down in Palouse after a wall collapsed on the former Palouse Arms Apartments.

The wall, which is part of an apportioned section of the building, collapsed outward Nov. 15.

Building owner Leonard Koepke of Moscow has been working to clear out the section in the past two weeks, for which the city issued a demolition permit Nov. 24.

“We don’t know what caused it specifically,” said Palouse Fire Chief Mike Bagott. “It had...