Built in 1906, the Shadle-Veasey House is a fine example of the Tudor Revival style and exhibits characteristic stylistic features that include a two-story form with formal massing, a steeply pitched side gable roof, four front-facing gables, vertically oriented windows, and prominent false half-timbering with stucco infill. The House was built for James M. Comstock, 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 the 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.
Clarence Veasey and his wife, Gertrude Veasey purchased the home in 1911. Veasey began a medical practice in Spokane in 1908, as an “occultist and aurist.” 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 daughter, Winona Veasey, resided in the home. An accomplished musician, Winona was active in St. John’s Episcopal Church and was a “member of the original board of the Spokane Philharmonic Orchestra, forerunner of the Spokane Symphony.”
 

The Shadle-Veasey House is included as a contributing property in the Ninth Avenue Historic Distric which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The Shadle-Veasey House, along with three other properties, were included in their own district, the Comstock-Shadle Historic District, which was listed on the Spokane Register of Historic Places in 2006.

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