John and Sarah McKee of Ontario, Canada, had this front-gabled Queen Anne style home built in 1893. Originally, elaborate scrollwork decorated the gable end, and a full-width front porch supported by spindlework posts spanned the façade. Great Northern Railway conductor Edward “Teddy” Logan owned the home and rented it to boarders from 1893 to 1899. In 1900, widow Alice E. Clark purchased the home and rented it to newlyweds Charles and Myrtle Norquist. Charles and business partner James Harbert operated The Fair department store. In 1905, the Reverend Alexander Pringle of the nearby Presbyterian Church rented a room in the house. After the Norquists moved to Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, in 1906, the church purchased the house but soon sold it to Mary and John Inglis in 1908. John was a locomotive engineer from Scotland; Mary was a homemaker from Ireland. Their two daughters, Bessie and Grace (who also lived in the house), operated a millinery (hat) shop. After John died in 1911 and Mary in 1920, Bessie and her husband Guy Chrisinger raised five children here. The home remained in the family until the mid-1970s.
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