Built in 1912, the Gustav & Elizabeth Toevs House is located one block east of Cliff Park, a prominent Olmstead Brothers-designed public park/gathering spot and neighborhood focal point on Spokane’s South Hill. Custom-built for Gustav Isaac Toevs and his wife, Elizabeth McPhail Toevs, the home is a fine example of the American Foursquare house form with influences from the Prairie and Craftsman styles. A prominent Spokane civic booster and milling executive, Gustav Toevs was employed as vice-president of the Spokane Centennial Flour Mill’s various milling operations located throughout Washington State and at the same time, worked as the general manager for the flour mill in Spokane from 1913 to his death in 1932. With expertise and success in banking, Gustav Toevs was recognized for his finance acumen and appointed to the Spokane Board of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank’s Spokane Branch by United States President Woodrow Wilson in 1914. Toevs further organized the National Union Life Insurance Company, and served on the Board of Directors for the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company. An accomplished and popular businessman, Gustav Toevs was praised as a “public-spirited citizen” and for his many contributions to the “civic growth of Spokane.”

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