Historic Register Tour - J.W. Cook House

HISTORIC NAME	J. W. Cook House
COMMON NAME
DATE BUILT	1905
ARCHITECT/BUILDER
PROPERTY STYLE	Queen Anne
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 2/1/00
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Thorpe-Westwood

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Built in 1905, the John W. Cook House is an excellent example of free classic Queen Anne style, and is the oldest and best-preserved home in the Lincoln Park Addition. In addition, the brick house is a rare example of turn-of-the-century masonry construction at a time when nearly all farm houses built in Spokane County were frame dwellings. The house also features a unique application of decorative stucco that has not been found on any buildings in Spokane or Spokane County. Cook, a master bricklayer and accomplished craftsman who worked for noted Spokane building contractors J. W. Forrest and Frederick Phair, designed and built the house. Significant for it association with the early history of the Spokane area, the house demonstrates late 19th-century and early 20th-century settlement in the Lincoln Park Addition and Spokane County.