[5][6] A vacant plot of land where early prominent Spokanite, Francis H. Cook's house used to sit.

Touring Europe for design inspiration, Whitehouse eventually settled on using the English Gothic style with some French influences.

[6] The first Dean of the cathedral was Richard Coombs, who relocated to Spokane in 1956 from Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Salinas, California.

[8][6][9] Bishop Cross Tower, named to honor the cathedral's founder, houses a 49-bell carillon,[3] one of only a handful in the Northwest, cast and installed by the English firm of John Taylor & Sons.

Especially notable are carvings by Ole Sunde of Seattle and by Arcangelo Cascieri and Adio diBaccari of Boston, Mass.