Built in 1958, the Walter & Barbara Foltz House is an excellent Mid-Century Modern example of the Contemporary style with strong Miesian influence. Contemporary-style characteristics include the home’s long low horizontal plan, flat roof, attached garage and breezeway, metal sash windows, combination vertical cedar board siding/smooth round river rock veneer, and a selective use of Bangkok teakwood for interior paneling and built-ins. Miesian-style influence is especially illustrated by the home’s open floor plan and by a full 25-foot-wide “window wall” at the rear of the house which offers a broad view of the backyard gardens, seemingly bringing the outdoors into the house. The home was designed by prominent Spokane architect Walter W. Foltz, for his wife Barbara Foltz, their family, and himself. A principal architect of the prominent award-winning Spokane architectural firm of Walker, McGough, Foltz, Lyerla (WMFL) for 21 years and an employee of the company for 31 years, Walter Foltz was praised in his obituary for his professional and long-standing “commitment to the profession of architecture” and as “a remembered teacher and mentor to many young architects.” At WMFL, a winner of more than 65 prestigious architectural awards in less than three decades, Walter Foltz was trusted as “the partner in charge of production,” “the orderly and timely execution of all project documents,” cost and quality control, and construction supervision.”

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