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Turnbull's statue Mrs. J.J. Browne and Daughter, depicting 19th-century Spokane resident Anna Stratton Browne and her daughter, was created as part of Spokane's Art in Public Places project. The bronze, brass, copper and steel statue was inspired by Georges Seurat 's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte .
Macy's (former Bon Marché), Seattle, 1929; Naval Reserve Armory, Seattle, 1942 [1] Pacific Tower, Seattle, 1932; Sanctuary at Admiral, Seattle, 1929; Schmitz Park Bridge, Seattle, 1936; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, 1933 [1] Seattle Tower (former Northern Life Tower), Seattle, 1927; SIFF Cinema Uptown (former Uptown Theatre), Seattle ...
The Spokane Art Center in Spokane, Washington, was a community art school opened in 1938 as part of the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. Its staff included many notable artists, and it was widely considered to be one of the nation's most successful FAP art centers. [1] It closed in 1942. [2]
She died in 1950 at the age of 76. The grounds became part of Pioneer Park, now known as Edwidge Woldson Park. The house itself was initially an art center for Washington State College before transferring to the city parks department as an art center. The property was listed on the NRHP on its own merit, in addition to as a contributing ...
May 1—For almost 120 years Mary's Place has stood at its South Hill location, eventually in the shadows of the Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center campus. But Wednesday morning, the house was ...
Spokane Convention Center has three ballroom facilities, totaling 50,700 square feet (4,710 m 2). The "Grand Ballroom" is the largest ballroom in Spokane and the convention center and holds 1,630 guests for catered events and up to 2,700 for general admission.
At the nexus of the Little Spokane and the Spokane, Thompson's men built a new fur trading post, which is the first long-term European settlement in Washington state. The first American settlers, squatters J.J. Downing, with his wife, stepdaughter, and S.R. Scranton, built a cabin and established a claim at Spokane Falls in 1871.
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