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Reminiscent
of large, rambling baronial manor halls built throughout the
English countryside, the Cedars Apartments was built in 1911,
and is an exemplary, artful expression of Tudor Revival styling
adapted to a multi-family apartment house. A steeply pitched
red tile roof, seven front-facing gables, clinker brick
cladding, false half-timbering, and rich ebony-finished woodwork
are a few of the building’s architectural elements that are
indigenous to the Tudor Revival style. Designed as a luxury
apartment block with multiple rooms in each apartment suite, the
Cedars Apartments was pictured in a 1911 Spokesman-Review
newspaper article which described the building as
“attractive…English apartments” with a construction value of
$30,000. The apartment house was designed by Spokane architect
Ehwald J. Baum, and was built for Hattie Jane Parsons, a
“long-time resident of Spokane” who was “prominent in
[community] business circles.” Active in real estate
investments, Hattie Jane Parsons was credited with having “a
part in building the Cedars Apartments, and the Parsons Hotel at
108 S. Jefferson [Street]” in Spokane. The Cedars Apartments has
operated as a multi-family residence for 96 years and continues
in that use today.
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