The Irwin & Olive Cooke House and Garage, constructed in 1937, qualify for listing on the Spokane Register of Historic Places due to their age and architectural significance. The property exemplifies the Tudor Revival Cottage style, popular in America during the 1920s and 1930s. The one-and-one-half-story house features a distinctive steeply pitched gable roof with a sweeping curved arch known as a "cat-slide" roof and is clad in multi-color, rough-textured clinker brick on all exterior sides. Inside, it retains original wood-paned and lead-paned windows, oak hardwood floors, honey-colored gumwood woodwork, and built-in features.The single-story garage behind the house has a front-facing clipped gable roof and is covered in painted clapboard siding.

Irwin & Olive Cooke, who had the house built, lived there until 1958. Irwin Cooke, along with his brother Eli, founded "Cooke’s Nut Shop" and a candy factory in Spokane.

The house and garage are also significant as the work of Gus J. Bouten (1906-1984), a prominent Spokane builder and founder of Bouten Construction Company. Between the late 1920s and mid-1940s, Bouten constructed over 40 homes in Spokane, with many on the South Hill and some on the north side. His company, a major player in commercial construction, has been involved in numerous projects including hospitals, office towers, and convention centers, making it one of Spokane’s most notable and experienced commercial construction firms.

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