Levesque-Majer House  1708 S. Maple Boulevard

HISTORIC NAME	Levesque-Majer House
COMMON NAME
DATE BUILT	c. 1912
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Joseph T. Levesque
PROPERTY STYLE	Craftsman Style, Japanese Influence
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 11/27/97
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Cliff/Cannon

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Architect Joseph T. Levesque designed this Craftsman style bungalow for himself in 1912.  He described it as a "unique residence fashioned after the Japanese style."  The Japanese influence certainly sets the home apart from other Craftsman style bungalows in Spokane.  Paul Duchscherer, in The Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Home, characterized the Levesque-Majer House as "a splendid architectural anomaly in a city with a significant architectural range," and a "textbook example of of Craftsman-style homes inspired by Gustav Stickley and the Greene Brothers" of Pasadena, California.  The home remains much as built.

Credits: Photo by Tim Cannan, 2002

© 1997-2002 City of Spokane, Washington. All Rights Reserved.
Last Date Modified: December 16, 2005