National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional certification comments, entries, and narrative items on continuation sheets if needed (NPS Form 10-900a). 1. Name of Property historic name Coeur d’Alene Park other names/site number 2. Location street & number 2111 W Second Avenue not for publication city or town Spokane vicinity state Washington code WA county Spokane code 063 zip code 99204 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property X_ meets _ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: national statewide X local Applicable National Register Criteria A B C D Signature of certifying official/Title Date WASHINGTON SHPO State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official Date Title State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action 1 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Spokane County, Washington Coeur d’Alene Park Name of Property County and State 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) (Check only one box.) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) Contributing Noncontributing private building(s) 1 1 buildings X public - Local district district public - State X site 1 site public - Federal structure 1 1 structure object 3 object 6 2 Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing) listed in the National Register City of Spokane Parks and Boulevards (1891-1974) N/A 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) (Enter categories from instructions.) LANDSCAPE/Park = Park LANDSCAPE/Park = Park 7. Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions.) (Enter categories from instructions.) No style foundation: concrete walls: stone roof: metal other: wood 2 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Spokane County, Washington Coeur d’Alene Park Name of Property County and State Narrative Description Summary Paragraph Coeur d’Alene Park is eligible as a site under the Multiple Property Documentation (MPD) for City of Spokane Parks and Boulevards (1891–1974) as an example of a Community Park (Property Type II). The site is the first City of Spokane publicly owned park, and features related secondary resources including one building (stone restroom), one structure (band pavilion), and three objects (two urns and a stone drinking fountain). Coeur d’Alene Park also meets the definition of a designed historic landscape, specifically of a type of city planning or civic design, as it was consciously laid out first by private owners and then as part of an evolving parks system in response to the recreational trends of the times. The site is characterized by passive and active recreational patterns and is laid out in distinctive quadrants that have maintained similar use since the park’s inception. Contributing resources include the park, two stone urns (ca. 1893), one granite and one Tenino sandstone, that were featured in the Washington State art exhibit of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair; a reconstruction of the original band pavilion (ca. 1891, 2013), designed with original plans; and a restroom building (1948) and drinking fountain (1948), both constructed in the distinctive blind-mortared, native basalt rubble rock style common to City of Spokane parks. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Description Coeur d’Alene Park (contributing site, No. 1) is located in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, in Section 24 of Township 25 North, Range 42 East of the Willamette Meridian, of the Spokane Northwest Quadrangle, and includes approximately 11.00 acres.1 The park comprises four residential blocks and, according to original plat maps, measures 675 feet (ft) on its north and south sides, and 630 ft on its east and west sides. The park is bounded on the north by W Second Avenue (Ave.), on the east by S Chestnut Street (St.), on the south by S Coeur d’Alene St., and on the west by S Spruce St. Located within the Browne’s Addition Neighborhood, the park’s topography is relatively flat and surrounded by residential development (including single-family homes and multifamily apartment buildings), a church, and a few commercial enterprises in adaptively reused historic-period homes. The nearly square Coeur d’Alene Park is divided into four quadrants by crushed basalt paths radiating out from the center of the park in the four cardinal directions. The paths end mid-block on their respective streets at paved entrances to the park. The four quadrants are subdivided by diagonal paths that also radiate out from the center, ending in informal entrances at the four corners of the park. The park’s center is characterized by two paths arranged in concentric circles surrounding a central pavilion. This nomination describes resources as one enters the park at the central formal southern entrance from W Fourth Ave., proceeding in roughly a clockwise manner. Table 1 lists contributing and noncontributing resources within the site boundaries. In addition to those resources specifically listed here, small planting beds and recreational equipment are constantly being added, refined, and redefined to reflect changing trends in park and garden interest. Individual features (buildings, structures, objects, and the designed landscape itself) contribute to the overall identity and character of the park, as do the spatial relationships of active and passive recreation areas, the generally flat topography interspersed with native pines underplanted with lawn, and the informal circulation patterns. 1 City of Spokane records are contradictory on the park’s acreage. Most records state 9.78 acres, but others list 9.92, 10.4, or 11 acres. This nomination utilized the acreage stated on Spokane County’s current tax parcel map for the north 1/2 of Section 24, Township 25 North, Range 42 East, Willamette Meridian, accessed January 24, 2018, http://cp.spokanecounty.org/SCOUT/Map/. 3 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Spokane County, Washington Coeur d’Alene Park Name of Property County and State The Coeur d’Alene Park landscape has been cultivated over 126 years, primarily characterized by open turf under mature trees of various ages. Towering native ponderosa pines (Pinus ponderosa) that predate the park represent nearly 70 percent of extant trees. Other specimens include dwarf Serbian spruce (Picea omorika ‘Nana’), silver maple (Acer saccharinum), Norway maple (Acer platanoides), golden catalpa (Catalpa bignoniodes ‘Aurea’), various species of elm (Ulmus), western larch (Larix occidentalis), silver and Lombardy poplars (Populus alba and nigra Italica), red and white flowering horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea and hippocastanum), mountain ash (Sorbus scopulina), and other examples of mature plant stock introduced in the early twentieth century. The pines are randomly interspersed across the park, with other introduced species clustered in groves or planted in rows or individually. Scattered throughout the park among and under the tree canopy is a variety of shrubs, including Rhododendron, Azalea, Hydrangea, barberry, juniper, lilac (Syringa), and bridalwreath spirea (Spiraea prunifolia). Shrubs are generally arranged in groupings of three to six in the lawn or in beds, some underplanted with an ever-changing variety of low perennials or annuals that members of the Browne’s Addition Gardeners select, plant, and maintain. The overall effect is a relatively open viewshed from both outside the park looking in and inside the park looking out. The park’s four quadrants are segmented

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