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"Sketch for Small Central Structures" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913
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| Accession #: | L84-207.282.2.1 |
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| Title: | "Sketch for Small Central Structures" for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913 |
| Object Type: | Drawing, Architectural |
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| Physical Description: | One pencil on tissue drawing |
| 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) |
| Category: | Special Collections |
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L84-207.282.2 (Cutter, Kirtland Kelsey, Drawing, Architectural, Set of Architectural Drawings for The Davenport Hotel Roof Garden and Pavilion, Spokane, WA, c. 1913, 1913-1914)
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