ANDERSON, LOUISE CHANDLER, HOUSE Spokane, Washington
National Register of Historic Places Data
ANDERSON, LOUISE CHANDLER, HOUSE has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13001030
- Date Listed
- December 30, 2013
- Name
- Anderson, Louise Chandler, House
- Other Names
- The Chandler Sisters House
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 3003 S. Manito Blvd.
- City/Town
- Spokane
- County
- Spokane
- State
- Washington
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; EDUCATION
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
"The Louise Chandler Anderson House in Spokane, Washington is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria B as the home of a prominent state university educator, Louise Chandler Anderson . Additionally the property is eligible under Criteria C as a textbook example of the American Foursquare house form, and as a product of accomplished, award-wining Spokane architect/builder, M. Randolph Smith. Built in 1922, the house was erected for Louise Chandler Anderson and her two sisters who together lived in the home for 37 years . Anderson achieved particular historic significance in the community from 1915 to 1956 as a leading university educator, department head, and professor emeritus at Eastern Washington University (EWU) where she made-according to the university's president in the 1950s-a ""monumental contribution""ii to the college and to ""education in [the] state"" of Washington.iii Anderson's significant accomplishments were honored by EWU when a women 's college dormitory was named in her honor. The period of significance begins in 1922, the date the house was built, and ends in 1960, the date in which Louise Anderson ended both her ownership and residency of the property."
