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Built in 1905, the
John W. Cook House is an excellent example of free classic Queen Anne style, and is the oldest and best-preserved home in the Lincoln Park Addition.
In addition, the brick house is a rare example of
turn-of-the-century masonry construction at a time when nearly all farm houses
built in Spokane County were frame dwellings. The house also features a unique application of decorative stucco that has not been found on any buildings in Spokane or Spokane County.
Cook, a master bricklayer and accomplished craftsman who worked for noted Spokane building contractors J. W. Forrest and Frederick
Phair, designed and built the house. Significant for it association with the early history of the Spokane area, the house demonstrates
late 19th-century and early 20th-century settlement in the Lincoln Park Addition and Spokane County.
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