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Set of Architectural Drawings for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913

Accession #: L84-207.282.2
Title: Set of Architectural Drawings for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913
Object Type: Drawing, Architectural
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Physical Description: Set of 272 architectural drawings: 10 elevations, 49 plans, 208 details, 5 sketches. Multiple design sketches for Davenport Hotel Roof Garden including plan views and fountains.
Description: By 1900 an early urban planning movement called City Beautiful was spreading across America with an ambitious range of concerns, from public health to social unrest. Its leaders aimed to counter the crowding and blight created by industrialization and commercial growth. They believed that a more prosperous and harmonious society would emerge from deliberate city planning. Public parks figured importantly among City Beautiful improvements. Parks provided every citizen with fresh air, physical exercise, and reprieve from the pace of city life. Parks also stimulated commercial development by improving neighborhoods. Older cities struggled to create parks, once scenic open spaces had been lost. But booming new western cities had an opportunity to plan ahead. Within the first decade of the 20th century, Seattle, Portland and Spokane commissioned the prestigious Boston landscape architecture firm, Olmsted Brothers, to complete significant park projects. Olmsted Brothers' designs appeared in more forms than parks and parkways. Inland Northwest residential landscapes, hotels, golf courses, and college campuses also bear their imprint. After commissioning Olmsted Brothers to landscape his South Hill estate, Louis Davenport asked them to design a roof garden (4th floor level, SW corner) for his grand new Davenport Hotel that opened in 1914. The roof garden appeared to be a temporary addition to his hotel design, because Davenport ordered Olmsted to incur the least possible expense: "We are in hopes to build up this wing in the future." See Davenport Hotel photograph L84-207.4.23 by T.W. Tolman, c. 1914. Roof Garden above third floor, far right corner. (Exhibit text: "Olmsted Brothers: Designing Spokane Landscapes," 2007-2008) Related correspondence and plan files on microfilm via Library of Congress. Olmsted Brothers job number 5943.
Category: Special Collections
Related Objects:
L84-207.282.2.1 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, "Sketch for Small Central Structures" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.10 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, "Elevation on First Avenue" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.11 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, "Alternate Scheme for Treatment of Last Bay (E) at East End of Garden (See Drawing No 12 (B) for Other Treatment, Scheme 2" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1914, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.12 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Sketch of Feature at East End of Garden (See Plan No 5 'P')" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.13 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Electric Fountain (See 'G' Plan No 5)" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.14 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, "Electric Fountain (See 'G' Plan No 5)" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.15 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, "Tempietto with Electric Fountain Beneath (See 'G', Plan No 5)" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.16 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Perspective, Drawing No 17" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.17 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Treatment of Corner, Scheme 2" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.18 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Section on line A-B (See No 18 sheet 1) through passageway, Drawing No 18, Sheet 2" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.19 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Sketch Plan for Roof Garden Davenport Hotel, Spokane Scheme No. 1" c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.2 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, "Study for Small Central Structure", Scheme 2, for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.20 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, ________ Plan for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.3 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, "Sketch Plan for Pergola Beam Work" The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.4 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Sketch Plan for Roof Garden Davenport Hotel Spokane Scheme No. 2" c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.5 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Sketch of Palm Room at East End of Roof Garden," Scheme 2, for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.6 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Sketch Showing Treatment of West End of Roof Garden," Scheme 2, for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.7 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, "Section thro Palm Room, Serving Room and Covered Passage, Scheme No 2", for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.8 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Sketches of Features" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
L84-207.282.2.9 (Olmsted Brothers, Drawing, Architectural, "Elevation on First Avenue" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
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Statement of Extent Set of 272 architectural drawings: 10 elevations, 49 plans, 208 details, 5 sketches

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