Spokane Washington's Browne's Addition
By Kevin Ray, REALTOR & U.K. Real Estate Consultant
(Resident Realty)
Tall, stately shade trees, quiet mansions with deep porches, trendy commercial and retail center. This is Browne’s Addition, Spokane’s first neighborhood. It sits at the west end of Spokane, the only residential neighborhood within easy walking distance of downtown. Subdivided in the 1880s, the houses were built for wealthy clients in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Browne’s Addition is named for John J. Browne, a lawyer who settled in Spokane in the late 1800s. He and Mr. A.M. Cannon bought 120 acres of land – which became Browne’s Addition and Cannon’s Addition (another stately residential neighborhood found on Spokane’s South Hill). At its height, Browne’s Addition was home to many of the wealthy merchants and business owners with downtown establishments. But boom times in Brown...
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