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Built in 1905, the Comstock House is an
excellent example of the Tudor Revival style. Defining features
of the style found on the house include a steeply pitched roof,
three front-facing gables, tall narrow windows, and false
half-timbering with stucco infill. Wide bargeboards and
decorative brackets articulate the eaves. A single-story front
porch projects from the center front of the house and features
an open gabled portico which is supported by paired square porch
pillars anchored to black basalt porch piers. The portico’s
open gable is embellished with open trusswork.
The house was built for James & Elizabeth
Comstock, civic benefactors, pioneer merchants, and founders of
the Crescent Department Store, the Spokane Dry Goods Company,
and the Spokane Realty Company. They lived in the home from
1905 to 1910, at which time they moved to 1106 West Ninth Avenue
at the east end of the block. The Comstock House was altered
for use as a multi-family apartment home in the late 1920s and
early 1930s. It had four apartments in 1929, and by 1950, it
offered five apartments. The property currently serves as a
multi-family apartment house.
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