Built in 1927, the LeRoy & Dena Zabel House on Spokane’s South Hill is an excellent example of the Craftsman Bungalow style. Defining Craftsman-style and bungalow-form features include the home’s groundhugging horizontal orientation, low-pitched roof, lower cross-gables, covered front porch, tapered wood porch pillars anchored to square brick porch piers, widely overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and purlins, narrow-width horizontal clapboard siding, and unembellished wide woodwork around windows and doors. The property was built by and for LeRoy and Dena Zabel, who owned the house for 19 years after its construction. LeRoy Zabel was active in Spokane Masonic Lodge #246 and was employed as a life insurance agent, while Dena Zabel was an active member of Westminster Congregational Church and later Manito Presbyterian Church. The Zabels went on to build several residences along South Manito Boulevard.

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