The Cannon Addition is formed…..

Simultaneous with the development of the Manito and Cliff Park Additions was the growth and expansion of the Cannon Hill neighborhood.  This area encompassed the southwest corridor to Cook’s hill.  It encompassed the region from the freeway south to 29^th Avenue, and from Bernard west to the bluff overlooking Hangman Creek.  Although commonly known as Cannon Hill, it includes numerous additions, including Cannon’s Addition and Cannon Hill Addition.  The following is the sample real estate advertisement that appeared in the March 8, 1888 Spokane Daily Chronicle:

Arlington Heights

Of

Cannon’s Addition

In the most beautiful location for fine residences in Spokane Falls.  It is now for the first time on the market though parties desiring beautiful homesites have been trying to buy lots in it for years.  It consists of 25 blocks finely located on an elevation which commands a view of the entire city and a prospect of the mountains and surrounding country which can not be excelled.  It is but three-fourths of a mile from the postoffice [sic].  We will take pleasure in showing the property to those who may desire to examine it.  The terms will be easy and price low.  Sale will begin on Wednesday the 7^th , and those who apply first will secure first choice.

Clough and Graves

And

H. Bolster & Co.

Sole Agents

 

Anthony M. Cannon, the developer of Cannon’s Addition, arrived in Spokane in 1878.  With his business partner, J.J. Browne, they purchased half of the original townsite from James Glover.  Among other enterprises, Cannon started Spokane’s first grocery store and later built its first bank.  In the early 1880s, he acquired 160 acres adjacent to the townsite through government land grant.  A condition for obtaining title to such land was the grantee reside on the site.  Cannon was not adhering to this requirement and almost lost it to a squatter.  However, a group of unidentified men influenced the squatter to vacate by firing numerous volleys of gunfire into his cabin.  It was later suspected the assailants came from a party Cannon was holding the evening of the attack.  Many articles written about Cannon, both in early newspapers and books, portray him as a great achiever and also somewhat of a hothead.   Cannon at one time among Spokane’s wealthiest men, amassed most of his fortune from real estate development, especially during the rebuilding of Spokane following the Great Fire of 1889.