12 Things To Know About Spokane WA
Here are 12 things you probably didn't know about Spokane:
Spokane is the smallest city to host a World's Fair.
Spokane is the home of Bing Crosby.
More than ? of the buildings in downtown Spokane are on the Historic Register, including the Art Deco Fox Theater.
Spokane has the 2nd Largest Urban Waterfall in the United States.
Spokane is within a one-hour drive of 76 lakes, including the gorgeous Lake Coeur d'Alene, as well as dozens of rivers.
Spokane is the birthplace of Father's Day.
Spokane region is home to more than twenty wineries including the urban Barrister Winery and nearby Townshend Cellar.
Spokane holds the world's largest timed footrace, Lilac Bloomsday Run
Spokane is home of Gonzaga University.
Spokane hosts the world's largest 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament.
Spokane is home to the famed Kirtland Cutter designed Davenport Hotel.
Spokane accesses the Centennial Trial--a 37-mile path stretching from the Idaho state line to Nine Mile Falls, WA, built for walking, running, skating, or biking.
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We're on our way to Europe for the summer via Seattle. We had some time to stop in Spokane, Washington and I squeezed in a quick city walk. I'd never spend much time in Spokane but the downtown looks pretty cool. I walked in the early morning on a Sunday so there were almost noone out except a couple of joggers. There some really nice hotels in the area and we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express on the north side of the Spokane river.
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Spokane is a city in Spokane County in the state of Washington in the northwestern United States. It is located on the Spokane River west of the Rocky Mountain foothills in eastern Washington, 92 miles (148 km) south of the Canada–US border, 18 miles (30 km) from the Washington–Idaho border, and 228 miles (367 km) east of Seattle along Interstate 90.
Known as the birthplace of Father's Day, Spokane's official nickname is the Lilac City. A pink, double flower lilac variety known as Syringa vulgaris is named for the city. It is the seat of Spokane County and the economic and cultural center of the Spokane Metropolitan Area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. The city, along with the whole Inland Northwest, is served by Spokane International Airport, 5 miles (8 km) west of downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second-largest city in Washington, and the 101st-largest city in the United States.
The first people to live in the area, the Spokane tribe (their name meaning children of the sun in Salishan), lived off plentiful game. David Thompson explored the area with the westward expansion and establishment of the North West Company's Spokane House in 1810. This trading post was the first long-term European settlement in Washington. Completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1881 brought settlers to the Spokane area. The same year it was officially incorporated as a city with the name of Spokane Falls (it was reincorporated under its current name ten years later). In the late 19th century, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest. The local economy depended on mining, timber, and agriculture until the 1980s. Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed World's Fair at Expo '74.
Many of the downtown area's older Romanesque Revival-style buildings were designed by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter after the Great Fire of 1889. The city also features Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, and the city is also the center of the Mormon Spokane Washington Temple District. The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist represents the Anglican community. Gonzaga University was established in 1887 by the Jesuits, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University was founded three years later and moved to north Spokane in 1914
In sports, professional and semi-professional sports teams include the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball and Spokane Chiefs in junior ice hockey. The Gonzaga Bulldogs collegiate basketball team competes at the Division I level. As of 2010, Spokane's only major daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, had a daily circulation of over 76,000.
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Northwest Profiles: God's House (St. John's Cathedral Spokane WA)
The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist is one of Spokane’s most beautiful and iconic buildings. Gothic and gorgeous, it is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. Simply divine.
Downtown Spokane Buildings Old Historic Lilac City Worlds Fair Town #1
Downtown Spokane Buildings Old Historic Lilac City Worlds Fair Town Spokane is officially nicknamed the Lilac City There are many older Romanesque Revival-style buildings in the downtown Spokane Washington. I had to drive around town since it has been a few years since I was here.
Here is what Wikipedia says
is a city in the state of Washington, in the northwestern United States. It is the seat of Spokane County. It is located on the Spokane River west of the Rocky Mountain foothills in eastern Washington, 92 miles (148 km) south of the Canadian border, approximately 20 miles (32 km) from the Washington–Idaho border, and 232 miles (373 km) east of Seattle along Interstate 90. The city and wider Inland Northwest region is served by Spokane International Airport, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States.
The first humans to live in the area, the Spokane people (their name meaning children of the sun in Salishan), arrived between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago, living off plentiful game. Known as the birthplace of Father's Day, Spokane is officially nicknamed the Lilac City. David Thompson explored the area with the westward expansion and establishment of the North West Company's Spokane House in 1810. This trading post was the first long-term European settlement in Washington. Completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1881 brought settlers to the Spokane area, and that same year it was officially incorporated as a city with the name Spokan Falls. In the late 19th century, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest. The local economy depended on mining, timber, and agriculture until the 1980s. Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed World's Fair at Expo '74.
Many of the older Romanesque Revival-style buildings in the downtown area were designed by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter after the Great Fire of 1889. The city also features Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes serves as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, and the city is also the center of the Mormon Spokane Washington Temple District. Gonzaga University was established in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University moved to north Spokane in 1914 from Tacoma, WA.[7] In sports, the Gonzaga Bulldogs collegiate basketball team competes at the Division I level. Professional and semi-professional sports teams include the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball, Spokane Shock in arena football, and Spokane Chiefs in junior ice hockey. As of 2010, Spokane's only major daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, had a daily circulation of over 75,000.
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Davenport Historic Photos - My Day in Spokane 3/7
As I ascended the stairs in the Davenport Hotel in downtown Spokane, Washington, I had no idea what was waiting for me on the balconies above. The historic photographs caught my eye because a glance into history brings the present into perspective. We’ve not always been here, and they once were and now are gone. The photos show the temporal nature of life, and the passing away of amazing times and beautiful people.
Since our time here on earth is limited, we should make the best use of it. I rarely take a day to wander around a large city, but this was my first opportunity to spend time alone in Spokane, and I was grateful my friend invited me to explore the city while she was working. The first stop was the historic Davenport Hotel, better seen in the first video in this six-part series, “My Day in Spokane.” This took place on June 6, 2014… and only a few days later I got dreadfully sick and failed to update my BookLady video channel for a while.
The Davenport Hotel was originally built in 1913, opened in 1914, and then closed after 71 years of service, in 1985. The dilapidated building was about to be demolished when local entrepreneurs, Walt and Karen Worthy decided to restore it back to it’s original glory. The renovation took place from 2000 through 2002. In 1975 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The photographs show a parade, banquets, Native American women, a ladies’ luncheon, actresses in a performance of “Cinderella,” diners in the Isabella Ballroom, a vibraphone player who performed with the Michlon Merrick Orchestra in 1928, a wedding banquet in the Hall of Doges, a doorman, a corner of the lobby, Queen Marie Alexandra of Roumania with Princess Ileana and Prince Nocholas in 1926, the Elizabethan Room, Alice Gary who was the daughter of Chief Spokane Gary – with President Herbert Hoover, Chef Mathieu and General Manager McClusky at a banquet, the grand opening of the Antoinette Ballroom, and an automobile show.
There were also a few cabinets with memorabilia on display, including items that once belonged to Bing Crosby, who was born in Spokane. The hotel has his dressing gown and a hat, and other Bing Crosby items.
At the end of the video I go out to the streets of Spokane… it was a pleasant day – not too hot – and I spent a lot of time walking around downtown Spokane. I don’t know the street names there so I can’t give exact locations, but I do know that there weren’t enough benches and I got very tired eventually, and my feet hurt. You’ll see in a later video in this series that I finally found a good place to sit down next to an unusual modern fountain.
I would love to return to the Davenport Hotel to eat lunch or dinner someday. I don’t know if I’d want to stay in the hotel rooms. I’m sure they’re very nice and appropriately modernized, but I’ve heard the hotel is haunted and I get spooked about things like that easily.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis Bing Crosby, Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation.
A multimedia star, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations; this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, American polls declared him the most admired man alive, ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.
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RUMRUNNER'S PARADISE
New Year's Eve, 1915 was a party to end all parties in Spokane. At the stroke of midnight, every saloon in the state would be out of business. This would be the last call before statewide prohibition would be enacted, closing the taps four years before the rest of the nation. But even as revelers saluted the new dry year, a lucrative wet underworld was forming between Spokane and Canada.
Halloween Outreach Spokane, Washington 2015
Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15
It's all about Jesus! Praise the Lord! Souls are desperate for Jesus, and are heading for eternal destruction without coming to saving faith in Jesus Christ! We have the hope and glory of Jesus! Let us proclaim His gospel with word and deed!
Praise God!
This is open for everyone (Moody Bible Institute Students, The Church of Spokane)
On Tuesday 10/27/15 At 8:26 p.m. at the Triplex (224 East Ermina Ave. Apt. 1), as West Section we will be praying for revival and over the upcoming outreaches! That Jesus would be glorified! For a massive outpouring of revival! Come Holy Spirit!
OUTREACHES:
On Saturday 10/31/15 (Halloween), we are seeking for Jesus to penetrate through the demonic strongholds that normally have a foothold on this day! We are contending for many to come to know Jesus, and experience the love of God, through prayer, evangelistic interaction, and holistic service. All for God's glory!
At 11 a.m.- (Open for Street Evangelism, All Sections, The Church of Spokane), This time will be led by Elijah Roberts, Jamie Patterson, and Myself..We will be meeting to pray at 224 East Ermina Ave. Apt. 1, and then heading out to the community to rake leaves, pray for neighbors, and share the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ! Please be praying for this time, as we are praying that this section would visibly see the love of Christ.
What to bring: Gloves, Trash Bags (Durable), Rakes
At 2:30-2:45 p.m. At the Triplex (224 East Ermina) Testimonial Pizza Time (of what the Lord has done in this outreach previously)! Praise the Lord! Open to only those whom are coming out to share Jesus with us!
At 3:45 p.m.- At (1011 East Baldwin)- This is an outreach through Fourth Memorial Church. This time will be led by Julleah Norton. We will be meeting to pray and seek the Lord! This will be a time of REVERSE trick or treating! Praise the Lord! We will be heading from house to house evangelism, by distributing candy, and telling neighbors that Jesus loves them. God is good!
At 8 p.m.- At the Triplex (224 East Ermina Ave. Apt. 1). We will be having a time of worship and prayer for about an hour or so. At around 9-9:30 p.m. (Open to Homeless Ministry/Street Evangelism, MBI Students, and The Church of Spokane) we will then head out downtown, and to Gonzaga's campus to proclaim Jesus. This will be a time where darkness becomes more eminent. These people need the love of God! Jesus is the only way! Praise God!
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me (James Robinson) at 203-527-2115. We're believing for a mighty move of God! If you desire to grow in evangelism, this is an outlet for spiritual growth (I pray). Please come expectant for revival and for Jesus glory to shine forth! Praise God!
We need your prayers, we need laborers, so come and labor in evangelism with us! Praise God!
Let us go, people are dying without Jesus!
Jesus said, I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but by Me. John 14:6 Jesus is the only way! Praise God!
Reflections By The River: EXPO '74
The year was 1974...the U.S. was in the thick of the Cold War; an American president was caught in a web of scandal and intrigue; and a small city in the Pacific Northwest threw a celebration - the whole world attended.
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Twenty years later, KSPS Public Television looked back on the accomplishment - on the vision; the people, and the monumental effort that turned a dream into a world - class reality.
Now KSPS is please to again bring you this special 25th Anniversary edition of the story of the little city that could...and did.
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Coeur d'Alene is the largest city and county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the principal city of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coeur d'Alene has the second largest metropolitan area in the state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census the population of Coeur d'Alene was 44,137. The city is located about 30 mi east of the larger Spokane, Washington. After the 2010 Census the two metropolitan areas were merged into a single Combined Statistical Area with a population of 679,989. Coeur d'Alene is the largest city in northern Idaho Panhandle. The city is situated on the north shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene, 25-mile in length. Locally, Coeur d'Alene is known as the Lake City, or simply called by its initials: CDA.
The city of Coeur d'Alene has grown significantly in recent years, in part because of a substantial increase in tourism, encouraged by several resorts in the area. Barbara Walters called the city a little slice of Heaven and included it in her list of most fascinating places to visit. On November 28, 2007, Good Morning America broadcast the city's Christmas lighting ceremony because its display is among the largest in the United States. Coeur d'Alene is a resort town, with the Coeur d'Alene Resort taking up a prominent portion of the city's downtown. It is also located near two major ski resorts, with Silver Mountain Resort to the east in Kellogg, and Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort to the north in Sandpoint.
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The Davenport Hotel (Spokane, Washington)
This article is about the hotel in Spokane, Washington. For other uses, see Davenport Hotel.
The Davenport Hotel [2][3] is a hotel located in Spokane, Washington. Commissioned by a group of Spokane businessmen, the hotel is named after Louis Davenport, its first proprietor and overseer of the project. Architect Kirtland Cutter designed the building in 1914. The Davenport Hotel was the first hotel in the United States with air conditioning, a central vacuum system, pipe organ, and dividing doors in the ballrooms. It is also the place at which the first Crab Louis(named after Louis Davenport) was created and served. The hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Davenport Hotel
The Davenport Hotel was completely restored by developer Walt Worthy in 2002 and operates today under the name The Historic Davenport Hotel within The Davenport Hotel Collection brand along with its three sister hotels.
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Davenport Hotel in 1916
Lewellyn Louis Davenport came to Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, in the spring of 1889 at the age of 20. He had been a clerk in San Francisco and came up to Spokane to work the summer in his uncle's Pride of Spokane Restaurant. The summer of 1889 was fateful for Spokane and for Louis Davenport. In August, a fire tore through the infant metropolis, turning 32 square blocks of civilization to ashes. Young Davenport salvaged what he could from the rubble, bought a tent, and opened Davenport's Waffle Foundry. Spokane rebuilt quickly after the big fire. Washington became a state that winter and Spokane dropped the Falls from its name. With timber, mining, agriculture and the railroad pouring money and people into the region, the city of Spokane was in the middle of it all and poised to become one of the great cities of the West.
Davenport recognized his opportunity and leased a brick building on the North-east corner of Sprague Avenue and Post Street the next year. He expanded his culinary offerings to nearly 100 items. Within a few years, Davenport's Restaurant was described by a critic as the finest thing of the kind in the country. Business was so good, Davenport expanded into an adjoining building within a decade. He hired up-and-coming architect, Kirtland Cutter, to make the two buildings appear as one in 1904. Cutter offered a Mission Revival style theme. The white stucco walls and red tile roofs stood in marked contrast to every other building downtown.[4]This remodel added the finest ballroom in the West on the second floor, the Hall of the Doges.
Construction of the hotel towerEdit
The Davenport Hotel was neither Louis Davenport's idea nor was it built with his money, as it was leading businessmen who desired a large public house in which to board and entertain their guests. Their searches for the best men of architecture and hospitality ended with their first choices, Cutter and Davenport. Leveraging Davenport's already strong name, the Davenport Hotel Company was formed in 1912 and preparation of the site began that year. The hotel tower went up in eight months of 1913 using horse carts, steam jacks and hand tools. Not a single worker was seriously injured or killed—a rarity for the time. Cutter and Davenport shopped the world for ideas and furnishings for their new hotel.[4] Cutter designed spaces inspired by the great architects of France, England and Spain. Davenport filled them with fine art and songbirds and prepared to seat his guests at tables dressed in the finest Irish linens from Liddell (whose linens sailed on the Titanic) and set with 15,000 pieces of silver (the largest private commission ever created by Reed and Barton). Ever since opening day, the hotel has promoted itself as one of America's exceptional hotels.
The Davenport Hotel at Post and First
The Davenport Hotel was home to the first commercially licensed radio station in Spokane—KHQ, which signed on the air in 1922. From its tower on the roof of the hotel, KHQ broadcast the first voices many people pulled from the air across the vast expanses of the Inland Northwest. KHQ featured many local bands, including The Musicaladers. That group's drummer dropped out of Gonzaga University and became world-famous for his singing voice. His name was Harry Bing Crosby.[5] KHQ radio remained a strong voice on the air for more than half a century. Both KHQ and The Davenport Hotel went dark in 1985.
Mr. Davenport sold his hotel in 1945, and died in his suite at the hotel in 1951; his wife Verus in 1967. Each successive owner through the second half of the
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World's Fair Memories
The smallest city to ever host a World's Fair, how did Spokane do it? The fair site was a jumble of railroad tracks and bridges obscuring the Spokane River from view. A gasoline shortage threatened to keep travelers at home. The Cold War discouraged even the Russians from coming.
Expo '74 President King Cole leads a discussion with many of the major players who brought the world to Spokane, including then-mayor David Rodgers. A refreshing reminder of what the power of civic action and leadership can accomplish.
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