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Spokane’s beautiful Rockwood neighborhood retains major features from its 1910 Olmsted Brothers plan: boulevards with stone entry pillars, broad medians, continuous rows of street trees, and green islands at junctions now called the “Olmsted Triangle Parks.”

Spokane’s beautiful Rockwood neighborhood retains major features from its 1910 Olmsted Brothers plan: boulevards with stone entry pillars, broad medians, continuous rows of street trees, and green islands at junctions now called the “Olmsted Triangle Parks.” The layout typifies the firm’s approach to subdivision design, employing curvilinear streets that accommodate natural topography, with “Each thoroughfare…bordered by from two to four rows of…beautiful shade trees,” now mature.

The Rockwood Addition, bounded by East 14th and 17th Avenues and South Conklin and South Hatch Streets is only a portion of the overall Rockwood neighborhood. See also jobs 03357 and 03471, as these jobs relate to neighboring Manito Park's Second Addition. Plan 03471-15 shows the two Additions combined for planning purposes. Plan 03707-8 shows the Rockwood Addition. Records for this job number includes a photo album labeled Rockwood Subdivision and correspondence at the Library of Congress.

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