Fort Sherman Powder House 1972, view from Northwest

ID: 5564 ~ Source: Image courtesy of: National Park Service, National Register Digital Assets.
This file appears in: A Gathering Place, The Historical Fort Sherman

This is the Fort Sherman Powder House, located on 607 Mina Street in Coeur d'Alene. The Powder House served as the first real home to the Museum of North Idaho.

This file appears in: A Gathering Place, The Historical Fort Sherman

By Katherine Hentges
The beautiful plot of land known to the Coeur d’Alene people as Hnya ‘(pqi’nn (pronounced “hin-yap-keehn-un”) is where Lake Coeur d’Alene and the Spokane River meet. It has been used as a gathering place for centuries. Long before the current…