Great Northern Station

ID: 3055
This file appears in: Rediscovering the River

This is a photograph of the Great Northern Railroad Station on Havermale Island before the riverfront was changed by Expo 74. The station was removed in preparation for the World's Fair, but the tower remains in its original place. The clock tower is one of the only remaining structures left over from before Expo. Today it is one of the most recognizable features of Riverfront Park.

Washington State Archives, Digital.

This file appears in: Rediscovering the River

By Cory Carpenter
How did Spokane get a hundred-acre park right in the middle of downtown? Riverfront Park was once a tangled mess of railroad tresses and industrial overgrowth. During the 1960s it was hard to even tell that a river flowed through the city because it…