1201 S. Adams Street

Statement of Significance

Built in 1906-1907, the Pattullo House is an excellent example of the Craftsman tradition.  The home was designed by the Ballard Plannary Company, a noted early 20^th-century Spokane architectural firm, and was constructed by the Chamberlin Real Estate & Improvement Company.  An artist’s rendering of the house was pictured on the April 1907 cover of Chamberlin’s promotional publication, Spokane’s Home Builders.  Advertised as an early show home by the general contractor, the publication noted the house was a “Chamberlin ‘Built on Honor’ Home” which meant the homeowner promised to only show the home to prospective homebuyers with permission from the builder.  Pictured on page seven in the Ballard Plannary Company’s c. 1910-11 house plan book, The Modern Bungalow, a photograph of the house was underscored with a caption that described the home as “strictly California in design,” and professed the “beautiful residence” was admired by “scores of people.”  The house was built for Estella Pattullo and her husband, Charles F. G. Pattullo, founder, president, and general manager of the Oregon Mortgage Company of Spokane for 43 years.  The Pattullo House achieved significance during the Pattullo’s tenure from 1906 to 1949, in the areas of “architecture” as a fine example of the Craftsman style, a product of the Ballard Plannary Company and the Chamberlin Real Estate & Improvement Company, and “community planning & development” for its architectural and cultural association with the urban design trends and patterns as a neighborhood “show home” for the Chamberlin Real Estate & Improvement Company.  The Pattullo family’s longstanding residence in the home and the notice given to the Pattullo “show home” by prospective homebuyers helped lead to the development and subsequent settlement of Booges Addition and the Cliff-Cannon neighborhood on Spokane’s South Hill.   

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