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Spokane businessman and philanthropist John Aylard Finch (b. 1854 in England), operated the Finch and Campbell Mining Company along with his business partner, Amasa B. Campbell (1845-1912). This firm had significant holdings in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of ID. During his busy career, Finch also expanded his business interests beyond mining, and took financial stakes in the White and Bender Company, Blalock Fruit Company, and the Coeur d'Alene Hardware Company. A resident of Spokane, Finch and his wife, Charlotte, commissioned this residence from noted architects Cutter and Malmgren for a site in the fashionable Browne's Addition Neighborhood. Cutter and Malmgren, operated in the city from 1894-1917, designing some of the most distinguished dwellings in Browne's Addition.

This grandiose Neo-Classical Revival house has been put on the Washington Historic Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Architect Cutter designed two other prominent dwellings on Spokane's West 1st Avenue at about this time, one of which was the Amasa B. Campbell House at West 2316 1st Avenue, the other the W.J.C. Wakefield House, at West 2328 1st Avenue.

In 1927, the building was turned into the Virginia Apartments.