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The Julius M.
Dutton House at 2918 W. Sharp is significant for its
architecture, as an excellent example of the American
Foursquare, distinctive for its Colonial Revival and Craftsman
influences. It was designed by Spokane architect Isaac J.
Galbraith and is further representative of the large number of
well designed, vernacular homes built during Spokane’s greatest
period of construction, when streetcar suburbs were developed by
entrepreneurs such as John D. Sherwood to house Spokane’s
growing middle class. John D. Sherwood platted the Sherwood
Addition where the Dutton House is located, and is one of
nineteen additions in the West Central neighborhood
platted between 1887 and 1906 and one of three platted in west
West Central. It was just one of Sherwood’s successful real
estate and development ventures at the time. He and his
colleagues were responsible for rebuilding Spokane after the
fire on 1889 and taking the city from a town of 20,000 in 1890
to a modern city of 104,000 with a full complement of streetcar
suburbs by 1910. In 1911 the real estate bubble burst and
development in the Sherwood Addition, as well as all new areas
in Spokane, slowed.
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