Built in 1889 as one of the first architecturally prominent homes in the Ross Park Addition, the Bayley House is a fine example of the Queen Anne style. The home was constructed for one of Spokane’s first pioneer bridge builders and civil contractors, James Luther Bayley, and his wife, Sarah B. Bayley. James Bayley built multiple roads, trails, and railroad bridges throughout Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, and Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Iowa, and the Dakotas. He was particularly noted for his construction of the largest river boat/lake steamer on the Pend Oreille River and for bridges he built in the late 1880s and 1890s in Spokane, including the first Post Street Bridge, the high bridge at West Sixth Avenue, and the Ross Park Electric Railway Bridge. The Bayley House was designed by prominent Spokane pioneer architect, Loren L. Rand, who rendered designs for many architecturally prominent homes erected in the Ross Park Addition where the Bayley House was built. In 2014, the Bayley House was moved from its original residential site at E. 1603 North Crescent Avenue (behind Avista Utilities Corporation) a mile east to a similar residential site in the Chief Garry Park neighborhood in northeast Spokane. 

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