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HISTORIC NAME	Marr House
COMMON NAME
DATE BUILT	1912-1913
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	Frank G. Hutchinson
PROPERTY STYLE	Bungaloid
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes - added 11/18/96
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	No
NEIGHBORHOOD	Cliff/Cannon

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Charles Edward Marr House is an excellent and well-preserved example of a bungalow in the Craftsman Style. Frank G. Hutchinson, an accomplished architect and delineator employed by prominent Spokane architects and architectural firms including Albert Held, Cutter and Malmgren, Hyslop and Westcott, and Jacques and Rantoul, designed the home. Spokane building contractors George and William Sillman built it during 1912 and 1913. They sold the home to Charles Marr in 1914. Marr, a keen businessman, became Spokane’s first grocery store magnate, and helped establish the first “self service” Piggly Wiggly Stores, and, later, the first Safeway supermarkets in the Spokane area. Beginning in 1909 with one market, Marr’s burgeoning grocery empire grew to include 575 stores in four major cities and two states by 1929.