Glover Mansion

The Glover Mansion is a historic Tudor revival home built in 1888 and located in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, just uphill from and overlooking the city's downtown.

Over the years the Glover Mansion has served as a residence, housed Spokane's Unitarian Universalist Church, and more recently been used as an event venue.

Wealthy and powerful, Glover commissioned architect Kirtland Cutter to design his grand mansion on a hillside to the south of the city center.

It was Kirtland's first major project, and helped spur a career that would make him one of Spokane's most renowned and prolific architects.

Glover and his wife, Susan, moved into the mansion shortly before the August 1889 Great Spokane Fire, which devastated the downtown core.

Glover's wife was later committed at Eastern State Hospital, buried in an unmarked grave, and largely erased from history.

[8] The property is surrounded by a three-story office building on the east across Washington Street, multi-story office and apartment buildings to the north across Eighth Avenue, including the historic Breslin, and multi-story medical facilities to the south and east, most of which are part of the Sacred Heart Medical Center campus.

[6] At the time of its construction and through to the present day, the area surrounding the Glover Mansion has been filled with grand homes for prominent and wealthy Spokanites.

The Marycliff-Cliff Park Historic District, listed on the NRHP, is located immediately to the south and west of the Glover Mansion.

West view of the Glover Mansion, with the 1961 building visible on the left.
View from the main entrance, looking northwest across Downtown Spokane.