Friday, June 11, 2021

Lewis & Clark Trip Day 35: More Spokane, WA (6/11/2021)

Friday, June 11, 2021
Spokane, WA: Frank's Diner in a Barney-Smith
Observation Car #1787 (1906, converted into diner in 1931)
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (est 1916, 1960
building renovated in 2001, new building in 2001)
The Navigators (2009, by Brad Rude) with
decorated mule deer, coyote and owl
Part of the Return of the Four-Leggeds (2003, by Tom Otterness)
depicting creatures trying to buy the earth back from humans
Return of the Four-Leggeds: A weasel negotiates
Return of the Four Leggeds: A salmon prepares to return upstream
Campbell House (1898, by Kirtland K Cutter, in
English Tudor revival style) was built for
mining magnate Amasa B Campbell
Reid House (1900, by Albert Held,
in Craftsman Bungalow style)
Patsy Clark Mansion (1897, by Kirtland K Cutter,
in an eclectic mix of styles for another mining magnate)
used sandstone from Italy, and has Tiffany stained glass
Coeur d'Alene Park with a 2013 reconstruction
of a c 1891 band pavilion
Advance reservations were required at the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. We had the place to ourselves.
Celebration of Heritage (1992, by Jacob Lawrence)
was created in support of the American Indian
Foundation and thus is "about Native American
experience," not the Black experience
Nude Study for Figure of Eustache de St Pierre
 (1885, by Auguste Rodin; cast 1972)
Jerusalem Cylinder (1999, by Dale Chihuly)
is unusual with its chunks of glass
Gold Over Madder #70 Venetian
(1989, by Dale Chihuly)
Gonzaga Red Chandelier (1995) and
Scarlet & Gold Persians (2000) by Dale Chihuly
Looking up at the Red Chandelier that includes
red neon tubing and gold highlights
Untitled (1981, by Donald Philip Taylor)
is all ceramic with no fabric
Expresso Stand (1997, by Harold Balazs)
Falls of the Spokane (c 1855, John Mix Stanley) (KSS)
Western #6: Out of the Mist, Mount Rainier
(1921, by John F Carlson) (KSS)
Prayer Meeting, Second Stone (1916,
by George Wesley Bellows)
Above and Below (1994, by Harold Balazs and John Davis) (KSS)
Alexander the Great (1982, by Andy Warhol)
Chickens (1949, by Glen E Alps, who was a printmaker
and educator, credited with developing collagraphy/ a
printing process where the print is applied to
a rigid substrate such as paperboard or wood)
Jundt Art Museum (1995, by Ronald H Tan)
Gonzaga's Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center
(2019, by Pfeiffer Partners of Los Angeles with
Bernardo-Will Architects of Spokane)
St Aloysius Church (1909-1911, by Preusse & Zittel
of Spokane, in Romanesque Revival style)
Statue (1989, by Anita Pauwels) of
St Aloysius Gonzaga, a Jesuit, who died
at age 23 from the plague as he was
assisting in the care of plague victims
College Hall (1898, by Preusse and Zittel)
is the oldest building on campus (KSS)
Bing Crosby House (1911), Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby
lived here with his family when he attended Gonzaga
University; he left college to focus on music,
but was a life-long supporter of the school;
in 1937 Crosby received an honorary degree from Gonzaga
Coeur d'Alene, ID at North Idaho College:
Fort Sherman Chapel (1880) is the oldest church in the city
Fort Sherman Officers' Quarters (1878, renovated 1997);
Fort Sherman was established in 1878 on the recommendation
of General William T Sherman, but was abandoned after
the Spanish-American War
Reconstruction of the Fort Sherman Powder Magazine
(1885, renovated in 2012) (KSS)
Big Hank Cabin was originally located in the Coeur d'Alene
National Forest; it was used to house "smoke chasers"/
seasonal forest fire fighting crews
Killifer Fire Line Plow was used to create furrows
for fire breaks, and was pulled by mules (KSS)
A one-man parade in Coeur d'Alene, who seemed
to get only a couple whoops of encouragement
;
Lunch was at Cricket's Restaurant & Oyster Bar (1985) known
for the toy train running just below the ceiling (not today)
The rest of the day was taken up with the drive to Kalispell, MT.
Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 36.

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