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The
Flint
house was the first built on this block of W. Boone in 1888. The
Flint House was such an early addition to the undeveloped
neighborhood, that local directories show it didn’t originally even
have a street address, noting only that it was located on the south
side of W. Boone Avenue between Nettleton and Cochran Streets. The
Flint House was built for Fred Flint who was born in Troy, Vermont
in 1856. He left Vermont in 1877 for California where he worked for
the railroad. In 1882 he moved north to Seattle where he went into
real estate.
Three years later Flint moved to Spokane and quickly became a
real estate magnet with partner Fred B. Grinnell. In 1908 Flint had
established his own business, the Flint Investment Company. Flint
purchased land on W. Boone in 1887 and had this house constructed.
Three years later Fred married Miss Alice L. Gray, a daughter of a
Boxport, Maine shipping captain, Captain Mark Gray. Alice died in
1922, followed four years later by Fred. They both continued to
occupy the home until their deaths.
The house sold following the passing of both the Flints to
William T. Shelton, a clerk at Pay’n Takit. Although William shared
the house off and on with various tenants, by 1940 he was a salesman
at Payless Drug Store, and by 1950 was the proprietor of his own
store with partner C.R. Cole, Variety Sales, a wholesale novelty
store located on W. First Avenue. Shelton remained in the home until
1960. It sold several more times over the next ensuring 40 years.
Foreclosed on several times and rented out more, the house sustained
fire damage in the early 1980s, and was completely rehabbed in 2006
following several years of neglect. A Tudor Revival style, the
house is dominated by a large brick chimney on the front façade and
features four bedrooms and original hardwood floors.
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