Located in the Booge’s Addition on Spokane’s South Hill, the Booge’s Addition Spokane Register Historic District forms a well-preserved representation of four houses built between 1896 and 1907. A reflection of turn-of-the-century single-family residences, the four homes that comprise the Booge’s Addition Spokane Register Historic District are excellent examples of the Arts & Crafts movement and the Craftsman style.  The district is architecturally significant as an example of the Craftsman style and American Foursquare or Prairie subtype, and as a representation of two prominent Spokane architects, John A. Creutzer, and William J. Ballard and the Ballard Plannary. As a tangible example of neighborhood development and subsequent settlement, the Booge’s Addition Spokane Register Historic District achieved further importance as a neighborhood that developed on the South Hill during an auspicious time in Spokane’s history.

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Located on the north side of West Ninth Avenue between South Madison and Jefferson Streets, the district is architecturally significant as an example of the Tudor Revival style and as a representation of two prominent Spokane architects, Loren L. Rand and Willis A. Ritchie. Perhaps the strongest historic significance attributed to the Comstock-Shadle Spokane Register Historic District, however, is through its association with the Comstock and Shadle families who were regionally recognized as some of Spokane’s most charitable benefactors.  The homes were built at different times for James & Elizabeth Comstock and Eugene & Josie Shadle, civic philanthropists, pioneer merchants, and founders of the Spokane Dry Goods Company, the Spokane Dry Goods Realty Company, and the Crescent Department Store. 

After James Comstock’s death in 1918, and Elizabeth Comstock’s death in 1934, Josie Comstock Shadle and her husband, Eugene Shadle, carried on the magnanimous philanthropic work begun by James & Elizabeth Comstock.  They continued to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to the beautification of Spokane parkland and waterways along the Spokane River, built Comstock Park/pool/playground and donated it to the City of Spokane, helped finance the multi-million dollar enlargement of St. Luke’s Hospital, and “were always ready to contribute liberally to anything pertaining to the welfare of the city which they both loved so well.” Perhaps the greatest gift bestowed to the Spokane community by the Comstock-Shadle family was the Shadle Trust Fund.  The trust was administered by the Comstock Foundation which gifted over $31.5 million dollars throughout the Spokane region for more than 50 years until 2000.

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Corbin Park Historic Neighborhood

Located two miles north of downtown, Corbin Park is one of only two local historic districts in Spokane.  The site was the city’s first fairgrounds with a central racetrack.  In 1889 a plat of the Corbin Park Addition included the former racetrack as a park in the center of the residential district.  In 1916 a formal park design was prepared by the Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects of Brookline, Massachusetts.  Today, most of the park has been adapted for current use as a baseball diamond and playground areas. 

The eighty-six houses built facing Corbin Park and located in the district represent a wide variety of architectural styles from the turn-of-the-twentieth-century.  The state of preservation of these homes is evidence of the effectiveness of Corbin's community planning efforts and also of subsequent utilization of good landscape architecture.  Homes in the district range from imposing Victorian to the modest bungalow, typifying the homes built in the Northwest during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.  

The success and revitalization of Corbin Park, Spokane’s first local historic district, is due to its very active residents.  Calling themselves a "historic neighborhood" rather than simply a historic district, Corbin Park is a cohesive, strong neighborhood built around a grand historic park.  

 

> Corbin Park Historic Neighborhood Map

> Corbin Park National Register Historic District

> Design Guidelines for The Corbin Park Historic District (PDF)

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Hillyard Market Street District

The Spokane Register Hillyard Historic Business District, commonly known as the “Market Street” District, is a contiguous façade of commercial block buildings erected between 1901 to 1948. The simple one and two-story buildings represent the construction, materials and design of early twentieth century commercial structures associated with a typical working-class town such as Hillyard, a community platted in 1892. In that same year the Great Northern Railroad began construction of its Western Regional Terminal Facility, and its huge rail yard and locomotive shops. With strong economic ties to activities and business generated by Great Northern, Hillyard continued to expand as the railroad prospered. 

Early on, the Market Street District became Hillyard’s center for business activity and trade in the railroad town. With the final closure of the rail servicing facility and shops in 1982, commercial trade in Hillyard suffered and hundreds of employees lost their jobs.  Yet despite these lean years, the Market Street District has continued to be the commercial center of Hillyard, and it remains the heart of the community’s hopes for economic revitalization.

To learn more, check out the Historic Hillyard website.

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Acknowledgement Nominations to the Spokane Register are prepared by homeowners or by consultants who provide the research and photographs for the nominations that are used on this website. We follow the National Register policy regarding use of photographs: “Use of National Register Photographs- By allowing a photograph to be submitted as official documentation, photographers grant permission to the National Park Service to use the photograph for print and electronic publication and other purposes, including but not limited to duplication, display, distribution, study, publicity, and audiovisual presentations.”