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 Spokane and Washington Improvement Company was developed by a group of local entrepreneurs to develop and sell properties in the Manito Park's Second Addition which encompasses well-known Rockwood Boulevard. The job number was set up in 1907. For more information about the work also see jobs 03471, which has the majority of the correspondence, and 01142.