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Built in 1912, the
Anderson-Webster House reflects one of the finest and
best-preserved examples of the Arts & Crafts tradition rendered
in the Craftsman style on Spokane’s South Hill. In 1979, the
property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
as a contributing resource of the Marycliff-Cliff Park National
Register Historic District. The home’s Craftsman style with its
widely overhanging eaves, exposed scroll-sawn rafter tails, and
robust use of false half-timbering with coarse-grained stucco
infill, heavily textured cobbled clinker brick, and black basalt
rock gained local notoriety in 1912 when it was built. The house
was featured in The Modern Bungalow, a house plan book
published in 1910 by the Ballard Plannary Company, the
architectural firm that designed the home. Identified as “Plan
Number 227” in the house plan book, illustrations of the
property were prominently displayed and included an artist’s
rendering of the home, elevations, floor plans, and
specification drawings for fireplaces, leaded-glass windows,
interior casework, reception hall staircase, and the home’s
front door. The house was built for Hannah & John D. Anderson,
a Spokane civil engineer, who later sold the property to J.
Stanley Webster, a former United States District Court Judge and
Washington State Fifth District Congressman, and his wife,
Margaret Lathrum Webster. Noted for his legal work in Spokane
while he resided in the Anderson-Webster House, Judge Webster
was “famed for his eloquent instructions to juries, rulings and
decisions” and received a commission as a Washington State
district court judge by United States President Warren G.
Harding.
He taught law at Gonzaga University and was regarded as a
“prominent figure in the Inland Empire for more than five
decades.”
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