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Built in 1908-1914, the Crommelin House was
listed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places as a
contributing historic resource in the Marycliff-Cliff Park
National Register Historic District. The property was built for
Henri Crommelin and his wife, Antoinette Wilder Broadwater
Crommelin. After Wilder Crommelin’s death in 1910, Henr i
Crommelin married Elizabeth Schimmel in 1914, and the property
was home to the Crommelin family for more than five decades.
Henri Crommelin was widely known as a “pioneer Spokane banker”
who worked as a manager of the Holland Bank of Amsterdam in
Spokane from 1906 to 1931, and as the vice president/secretary
of the Vermont Loan & Trust Company until his retirement in
1946. He was esteemed as “one of Spokane’s Dutch colony and
widely known businessmen”who helped build up the city, and was a contributing
leader in local business, civic, social, and sports circles.
From 1908 to 1956, the Crommelin House gained importance in the
area of significance, “architecture,” as a fine depiction of the
Tudor Revival style. With its asymmetrical design, steeply
pitched roof, front-facing gables, half-timbering, narrow
windows, and prominent side porch, the well-preserved Crommelin
House embodies numerous identifying elements of the style. Of
particular note is the home’s stucco cladding which was adopted
for “a relatively small percentage of Tudor [Revival-style]
houses”in America; the use of stucco was “most common…on
examples built before widespread adoption of brick and stone
veneering techniques in the 1920s.”
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