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Before Spokane was a City and Washington was a State, Hiram Muzzy became one of Spokane’s earliest settlers. He moved his family from New York to the "Wild Washington Territory" in 1880 and staked his homestead claim on 160 acres just north of the Spokane River. The area population then was only around 250.

Muzzy cultivated 1,500 apple trees on his homestead but made his fortune as a land baron platting and selling Muzzy’s Addition in 1888, part of what is now Spokane’s West Central Neighborhood. He sold an estimated 500 lots of his property during Spokane’s early population explosion following the arrival of railroads and rich mining strikes in north Idaho. By 1889, Spokane’s population swelled to 20,000 and Muzzy built his third home on his homestead in 1889, a brick and granite Queen Anne Victorian home known as the Muzzy Mansion.

Irish immigrant Patrick Shine and wife Mary bought the house in 1903. Shine served as a prominent attorney, Spokane City Treasurer, Senator, Consular Agent to three Canadian Provinces and nominated to US Ambassador to Ireland the year of his death in 1934. Widow Shine remained in the house until her death in 1955.

The house began a transition in the 1940’s into what eventually became a 5-unit apartment house. Following its purchase in 2007 by Mike Schultz and Steven Sanford, restoration commenced and continues today, carefully reverting the house back to its original floor plan and sense of historic grandeur. In a phased-in process, the house began opening as a Bed & Breakfast in October 2009 following its appointment to the Spokane Register of Historic Places. Today, guests enjoy spacious rooms, rich woodwork, and fantastic hot breakfasts enveloped in an ambiance of unfolding history.
 
Thanks for visiting the Muzzy Mansion website.
We look forward to seeing you soon!  --  Mike and Steven
                                                        
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
   

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