Built in 1890, The Hanauer-Cook House is an eclectic interpretation of the Queen Anne tradition with Free Classic Queen Anne style and Tudor Revival influence. The large two-story, house is a manifestation of typical Queen Anne style features which include an irregular hip roof with lower cross gables, an irregular footprint with both bowed and box bays, a brick and basalt rock foundation, a full-width covered front porch with a wrap-around corner porch, diamond-paned leaded-glass windows, tall 1/1 double-hung wood-sash windows, and a round turret at the second floor. The large 3,100 square-foot-house was built by Spokane judge, lawyer, and real estate developer, Adolf Munter, who speculatively purchased all twelve lots on Block 59 in the Second Railroad Addition from the Northern Pacific Railway Company. Just after construction of the house was completed, Munter sold it to the home’s first resident owners, Nettie & Joseph Hanauer, a prominent clothier and Hanauer brother who was a member of Hanauer Brothers IXL Clothing Company in downtown Spokane. The historic name of the Hanauer-Cook House also includes prominent owner, Harl J. Cook and his wife, Maria Cook. A prolific writer, pioneer newspaper man, museum supporter/founder, and prosperous real estate investor/developer, Harl J. Cook managed and expanded the Spokane Chronicle from a weekly to a daily newspaper, helped established a public museum in Spokane, and founded Cook-Clark Real Estate & Development Company. His real estate activities extended to the residential development of the Cliff Park neighborhood, a National Register historic district and one of Spokane’s most architecturally and socially prominent neighborhoods. 

The Hanauer-Cook House is also a contributing resource in the Cannon Streetcar Suburb Historic District listed on the Spokane Register 3/6/2023.

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