Statement of Significance

During its period of significance from 1905 to 1955, the Charles & Susan Hussey House and Carriage House achieved importance in the areas of "significance," "architecture” and “community planning & development.”  Built in 1905 and 1917 respectively, the house and carriage house are excellent examples of the Arts & Crafts tradition expressed in the Craftsman style.  The property’s original design and architectural elements reflect a strong horizontal emphasis which is a prominent component of the Craftsman-style.  Horizontal feathers of the property include jerkinhead gables, widely overhanging eaves, exposed rafter tails, wide bargeboards with pointed cutout tails, decorative brackets, battered double coursed shingles in combination with narrow-width clapboard siding, a covered front porch, and wide horizontal bands that separate the spaces between the basement, first floor, second floor, and gable peaks.  The house was designed by John A. Creutzer, an architect who practiced in Spokane for only six years but who gained notoriety for his multi-storied high-rise commercial building designs in Seattle, Washington.   The property was built for Charles Hussey, a prominent “pioneer mining man” and early Spokane banker, and his wife, Susan McNamee Hussey. One of the first homes built in Booges Addition, the Hussey House is characteristic of early Spokane urban development patterns and trends that lead to the residential settlement of the city’s lower South Hill.

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