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HISTORIC NAME	Heath House
COMMON NAME
DATE BUILT	c. 1899
ARCHITECT/BUILDER
PROPERTY STYLE	Queen Anne
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 12/3/84
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Logan

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Built in 1889, the Heath House is significant both architecturally and historically. It is architecturally significant as an especially good local representative example of the Queen Anne style, and historically significant for its association with Sylvester Heath, one of the founders of Spokane, and the developer of Heath’s Addition, now known as the Logan Neighborhood, where the home is located. In the same year Heath built his house here most of Spokane burned to the ground in the Great Fire of 1889. Heath was one of the leaders in rebuilding the city, erecting the Heath Block in 1890. He also provided financial support for Father Cataldo’s efforts to build Gonzaga University and donated the land where the Heath Branch of the Carnegie Library now stands, across the street from the site of his later residence, built in 1898, at E. 613 Mission. Both the Heath Block and the Heath House at E. 613 E. Mission have been demolished.