Historic Register Tour - Campbell House

HISTORIC NAME	Wood House, Lemuel & Cora Rose
COMMON NAME
DATE BUILT	1901
ARCHITECT/BUILDER	unknown
PROPERTY STYLE	Free Classic Queen Anne
ON THE SPOKANE REGISTER	Yes-added 2/7/05
NATIONAL REGISTER	No
IN A DISTRICT	No
DISTRICT	Yes - Browne's Addition
NEIGHBORHOOD	Browne's Addition

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Built in 1901 and 1922 respectively, the Lemuel & Cora Rose Wood House and garage are a textbook illustration of the Free Classic Queen Anne style in Spokane, Washington. Identifying features of the style reveal Queen Anne-style elements such as the home’s irregular hip roof and two-story form, full-height curved wall tower and conical roof, and a covered wrap-around front porch. Colonial-influenced Free Classic details are revealed in the home’s pedimented cross gables, modillioned boxed eaves, narrow-width horizontal wood clapboard siding, and round, porch columns. Listed as a contributing property in the Browne’s Addition National Register Historic District (designated in 1976), the Wood House is located in the west end of Browne’s Addition on West Pacific Avenue. West Pacific Avenue was one of the most celebrated streets in the area, and Browne’s Addition was designed as one of Spokane’s first and most lavish, upscale neighborhoods. The home was built for Lemuel S. Wood and his wife, Cora Rose Wood, who were founders, owners, and proprietors of the Spokane Mattress & Upholstering Company. During the period from 1901 to 1954, the Wood House achieved significance in the areas of “architecture” and “community planning & development” as an example of the high style, large size, quality materials, and superior craftsmanship attributed to custom-designed single-family homes that were built throughout Browne’s Addition for Spokane’s affluent upper middle-class. Historically and architecturally significant, the well-preserved Wood House and garage have remained in use as a single-family residence for more than a century