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On January 23, 1905, James M. Comstock
purchased Lots 10 and 11 on Block 69 in the Second Railroad
Addition on West Ninth Avenue for $2,000. Founder of the
Spokane Dry Goods Company, Spokane Dry Goods Realty Company, and
the Crescent Department Store, Comstock was also father to Josie
Comstock Shadle. Josie’s husband, Eugene Shadle, was a business
partner of Comstock’s and was appointed president and general
manager of the Crescent Department Store in Spokane, one of the
most successful and longest-running department stores in Spokane
history.
Comstock commissioned Spokane architect,
Loren L. Rand, to design a home for his daughter and son-in-law
at 1118 West Ninth Avenue, which was next door east of
Comstock’s home at 1128 West Ninth Avenue. When construction of
the house at 1118 was completed, J. M. Comstock and his wife,
Elizabeth Comstock, conveyed the property as a wedding gift to
their daughter, Josie Comstock Shadle, who at the time was a
newlywed bride of five years.
In 1911, the
Shadles moved next door east to 1112 West Ninth Avenue, and sold
the property at 1118 West Ninth Avenue to Dr. Clarence Veasey
and his wife, Gertrude Veasey. Veasey began a medical practice
in Spokane in 1908, as an “occultist and aurist” with Drs. R. L.
Thomson and Wilson Johnston. Thirty years later at the time of
his death in 1957, Dr. Veasey had achieved local respect as a
“prominent Spokane eye specialist” and an “ophthalmologist of
national prominence.” He was “widely published” and noted as
the author of two books and several articles on diseases of the
eye. After his death, Dr. Veasey’s wife, Gertrude Veasey, lived
in the house until her death two years later in 1959. From 1959
to 1975, the Veasey’s unmarried daughter, Winona Veasey, resided
in the home.
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