Built in 1899, the Leo & Katie Long House and carriage house is a landmark example of the Queen Anne style with influence from French Eclectic and Tudor Revival traditions. Irregular rooflines with dormers, towers, turrets, and bays; a kaleidoscope of wood shingle, brick, stone, and stucco cladding; and prominent quoins, ebony-rich oak woodwork, and Gothic-inspired motifs are tangible elements that all help to illustrate an eclectic mix of high-style characteristics that distinguish the Long House. The home was custom-built for lumber baron and mining company owner, Leo H. Long, and his wife, Katie Long, who lived in Spokane for seven years from 1899 to 1906. During their short stay, the Longs built the Long House, founded the Leo Long Lumber Company, and Leo Long helped develop several mining businesses, including the Spokane Galvanized Pipe Company (later called the Pacific Coast Pipe Company), the Washington Pipe & Foundry Company, the Lone Pine Surprise Consolidated Mining Company, and the Republic Silver Mine. The house was designed by prominent Spokane architect, Albert Held, a “successful” and “honorable architect” who made “a specialty of fine residences and…handsome homes,” including the Leo Long House. In Western Progress, a promotional booklet about Spokane, Albert Held was awarded “a very high place…on his merits” and was praised as “an able, progressive architect and a capable, honorable business man.”

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