Spokane’s Historic Preservation Society is seeking added protections for the Baum House, which originally belonged to some of the earliest Jewish settlers in Spokane.
Isaac and Tillie Baum built their house on Pacific Avenue in Browne’s Addition in 1889. That was just a few years after the first German Jewish immigrants came to Spokane.
Spokane Historic Preservation Officer Megan Duvall presented to City Council this week to show why the Baum house should be added to Spokane’s Register of Historic Places.
“Isaac Baum was part of this early group,” she said. “His wife Tillie Oppenheimer Baum, along with her sister, are recognized as the first Jewish women to settle in Spokane.”…