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

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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.