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The Brooks House has been a bright spot in Spokane’s architectural history since it was built by acclaimed architect Kenneth Brooks for his family in 1956. It sits on a quiet street that is well-known for it’s stately homes, all built around the turn of the twentieth century, all sharing fairly homogeneous design sensibilities. “From what we’ve heard the neighbors’ reactions ranged from curious to outraged,” Kris Dinnison says of when the house was built. Dinnison purchased the house with her husband, Andy, from Brooks’ widow, Edie, in 2012.

Some of the couple’s favorite features of the home are the very things that had deterred other prospective buyers, from the interior courtyard surrounded by floor to ceiling windows, to the flat roof, to the under floor heating system. “The Brooks family had a huge goodbye party for the house before they turned it over to us,” Kris shares, “There were lots of tears and laughter and everyone was telling us their stories of the house and making sure we understood that it came with a long history of hospitality. We’ve tried to live up to that standard.”