2207 S. Rockwood Boulevard

Henry R. Lydell (builder) and Frank Stanek (landscape architect)

Statement of Significance

Built in 1917, the John & Genevieve Doran House is a fine example of the Arts & Crafts tradition interpreted in the Craftsman style.  The property is located on the northeast side of Rockwood Boulevard in the center of the Rockwood National Register Historic District.  The home’s design, materials, and craftsmanship are typical of the early 20^th-century Craftsman style and are evident in the covered front porch, widely overhanging roof eaves, scroll-sawn brackets, wood shingle wall cladding, cut stone foundation, and thick brick porch wall and large square brick porch piers.  Characteristic of the Craftsman style, interior rooms are finished with the highest quality quarter-sawn solid oak floors, wainscoting, plate rails, stairwell, doors, and woodwork.  With many original features intact, the well-preserved Doran House retains good architectural integrity in original location, design, materials, workmanship, and association as a single-family residence built in the early 1900s in Spokane, Washington.

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