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Told by the Picmeers mahogany were used in parts of the building', and California redwood was imported for finishing some of the upper rooms. Wall Paper Over Art TVork According to Mrs. W. C. Gray, W. 414 Sixth, for whom the house was built, Charles Wilbert, still a resident of Spokane, was the contractor, and the late H. Pereusse was the architect. Terms rarely heard now were used by Mrs. Gray in telling what the mansion contained. There was a drawing' room, a butler's pantry, aleoye suites and other features which are noticeable by their absence in homes in • modern times. Quarters for servants were finished on the third floor. There was a carriage entrance approaching a high step at the west side of the house, where the ladies entered their carriages or mounted horses, in the days before automobiles. One of the rooms was frescoed by an artist from Germany but in • • the ill luck which befell the place in later years someone co\'ered the frescoing with cheap wall paper. Builder Well.to-do "When my husband built the house he was considered one of the • ,,'ell-to-do men of the cih'. We had sold the site of the California • House at Front and Howard the year before as a site for the city hall for $67,000, and Mr. Gray had been successful in a number of railway construction contracts, a business that he followed before coming to Spokane in ] 878. ""'\Ve had a ranch of 700 acres in Stevens county, which we operated with a number of men, but Mr. Gray wanted a nice house in Spokane that we could call home. He built that house to please me, but to tell the truth, we lived in it but one year, and I afterward usel! to joke him by calling it "Gray's folly." "During our first winter in the house, 1892-1893, it was \'ery cold, aud Mr. Grav estimated that it cost him $100 a month to heat it. About that ti~e my health was poor and I found that life on the farm in Stevens county was more beneficial, so most of my time in the next • few years was passed on the farm. Ownership Becomes Burden "Mr. Gray and myself were pals and business partners. "'\Ye had no children. "'\Vhile he consulted me about everything that he did, he was the business head of the house and I usually concurred in everything as being for the best. While I did not encourage his building such a fine home, still it was all for me and I acquiesced. 173
Told by the Pioneers "He deeded the place to me as my personal property, and I held it for 20 or 25 years, until it became quite a burden to look after. It was oWlled by Mrs. Wilcox after it passed out of our hands, then by Mrs. Jesse Bucholtz and finally by Mr. Summers, who sold it to the Engelman brothers. "'Ve orig'inally oW1led the east half of the block on which the house stood, bounded by Washington, Stevens, Fifth and Sixth. Mr. Gray bought it from Dennis & Bradley for $13,000, and the large grounds around the house were utilized to set it off to good advantage. Two of the lots in the plot that belonged to the house were sold two years ago to the Standard Oil Company for $26,500. Brother Looked After It "In the earlier years when we still at times occupied the house but lived on the Stevens county ranch, my brother, \Vill Smiley, then a paying teller in the Traders' Xational bank, lived there and looked after it. He is now in the federal sen-ice at Hoquiam, 'Vashington. " 'Gray's Folly,' as I called it, more by way of affection than reproach, had among its occupants many families whose names stood high in Spokane in their day. One of the first families we leased it to was J. N. Glover, father of Spokane, who lived there while his own mansion was under construction. Then Mrs. James Clark lived there while her house ,,'as being built. Eugene B. Braden, a big smelting man, lived and entertained there. Then there was Dr. George ,Y. Libby, Dr. Armstrong and many others in later ~-ears. Dr. F. W. Hilscher operated it as a sanitarium for a while and so did Dr. O. B. Setters. In the last few years it became somewhat dilapidated and shifted tenants frequently. Money No Concern "I am no·\\, Ti veal's old and still take a keen interest in life. Monev • • no longer concerns me, as I need but little to live in quiet comfort and let others fuss about money. • "I look over the last fifty-three years of Spokane's history pretty much as one would a pleasing motion picture. Faces that I knew so well have passed on, but the incidents of the early days still live. There were big men and loyal women helpmates in those days. That may account for so manv fine mansions that men built to house their famo ilies 40 to 50 years ago, nm\' being torn down in the onward march of progress. " 174
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WASHINGTON PiONEER PROJECT ADVISORY
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Told by the Pioneers FOREWORD 'rhe
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Told by the Pioneers River. Father
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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INDEX Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
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'SDEX Polk, 1 'i 5 Polk County, Ore
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INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
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INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
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INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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