Built in 1898, the Blake House is an excellent interpretation of the Queen Anne Free Classic architectural style, which includes the home’s wide girth with two-and-a-half-story height, hip roof and hip-roof dormers, symmetrical façade, overhanging eaves, narrowwidth horizontal clapboard siding, multiple three-sided beveled bays with original tall narrow wood-sash windows, and interior Tamarack-paneled woodwork and wainscoting. The most significant Queen Anne Free Classic-style architectural feature of the house is a covered full-width, wrap-around front porch at the first floor. The home was designed by Spokane master architect, Albert Held. The home was built and owned by the Blake family for 28 years from 1898 to 1926. Remembered as one of the most admired and well-respected judges in Spokane, Judge Richard Blake owned and resided in the Blake House until his death in 1900. The residence passed to his son, Judge Bruce Blake, who owned the property until 1926. Prominent and proficient in law like his aforementioned father, Judge Bruce Blake was “the first judge to preside on a Spokane County Superior Court bench under Washington statehood,” and was a “longtime member of the Washington State Supreme Court.”

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