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Julian Edward Itter: "Father of North Cascades National Park"
The natural beauty of Washington State is an artist's paradise.
Kayaker Tyler Bradt Who Paddled over Palouse Falls
An American whitewater kayaker takes the biggest plunge in an attempt to set a world record. Tyler Bradt was born in Stevensville, Montana. Tyler was kayaking class five rapids at the age of 12, and…
Kellogg: Center of Silver Valley: A Town Founded by a Donkey
The small town of Kellogg has a colorful history; from a mining boomtown to environmental cleanup and finally to a popular site for outdoor recreation.
Kirtland Hall: Kirtland Cutter's surprising Yale connection
A rich lady's wish comes true
Knickerbocker Apartments
The Knickerbocker is a luxury apartment complex. It was built in 1911 with mine owners and other wealthy businessmen in mind. Graham E. Dennis, who built the building, lived in one of the apartments…
Knights Diner
Knight's Diner is a restaurant in Spokane, Washington. Knight's diner was formerly part of Hillyard, Washington, a bustling railroad town on the north eastern edge of Spokane. Hillyard was…
Kurt Waldheim at EWU: Commencement Speaker, United Nations Secretary General, War Criminal
In 1982, Eastern Washington University set out to find a notable commencement speaker to celebrate their 100th anniversary.
Invitations to participate in the centennial celebrations went out to…
Lakeview: Mining Camp to Vacation Paradise
Lakeview, Idaho was once a thriving mining town with a population of over 1,000 in 1890. Within 40 years the town became an isolated community of about 20 people.
Lantern Statue
This twenty-foot cement statue was originally titled Untitled, but was quickly renamed The Lantern due to its striking closeness to that of a Japanese lantern. A disarray of geometric cut-outs allows…
Leavitt Hall: Where the New Has Replaced the Old: Customs, Controversies, and Protests
On the spot currently occupied by Weyerhaeuser Hall once stood the Whitworth Dining Hall, which was later named Leavitt Hall. Originally built in 1944 due to the growing student body. Leavitt Hall…
Lewis and Clark High School
Lewis and Clark High School was not always the magnificent landmark it is today. In fact, it was founded in 1883 as schoolhouse called Central School, which became the high school when the city built…
Lied Art Building: A Place for Creativity to Flow: Possibly the Most Creative Place on Campus
There is rarely a time when darkness falls onto the Whitworth University Lied Art Center. With clerestory glass windows and a vaulted roofline, light is constantly filtering into the building and onto…
Lilac Garden: Manito Park Tour
Before the Lilac Garden, this area was part of the Manito Zoo from 1905-1932, where buffalo roamed. One of the larger and more famous of the buffalo was King Ranger. When he died, his body was…
Lindaman Center: The Home to the Social Sciences: A World War II building named for a "Futurist President"
Throughout the years, the Lindaman Center has served many purposes at Whitworth University. The building was originally the Music and Arts building and was part of the 1946 Mead Act, which provided…
Locked Up For Life: An Early Spokane Celebrity's Fall From Grace
Susan Glover spent her golden years at Eastern Washington State Hospital For the Insane after one terrible day.
Lois D'Ewart, Resident Since 1960
"You'd have thought we moved to the North Pole when we moved to the other side of the freeway."
Lois D'Ewart has lived in the East Central neighborhood since 1960, long enough to remember the…
Looff Carrousel
Riverfront Park's Looff Carrousel is one of America's most beautiful and well preserved, hand-carved wooden carousels. It has 54 houses, a giraffe, a tiger and two Chinese dragons, all of which are…
Lookout Pass: The ski area discovered by freight-hoppers, which grew into a real winter sport destination.
Today we have heli-skiing for the true adventurers who want to tackle untamed powder, but in the early 1900s it took real ingenuity to access downhill ski areas off the beaten path. Located in the…
Loop Drive and Bridge: Manito Park Tour
Most of Manito Park is visible from the top of Loop Drive. Did you ever wonder where Spokane got the land for this park?
In 1884, Francis Cook, an early settler of Spokan Falls and a newspaper…
Water Power: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
For nineteenth-century pioneers like James Glover, falling water represented power - the power to grind flour, to saw logs, and to build a city. These were the fundamental industrial activities in a…
The Davenport Hotel: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
The Davenport Hotel was the brainchild of restauranteur/entrepreneur Louis Davenport. Davenport was not a Spokane native, but he found himself in Spokane shortly after the great fire of 1889. …
The Fox Theater: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
The Great Crash in December 1929 left a lasting impact on the American economy--and on Spokane. Plans by Fox West Coast Studios to build a theater had been part of Spokane gossip since 1927. The…
The Palouse: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
A homesteader wrote of the Palouse in the 1880s: "Its beauty was wild and untrammeled and the undulating hills were covered with luxuriant grasses." Bunchgrasses and wildflowers created a lush meadow,…
Outdoor Play: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
"Near Nature. Near Perfect." The tourism motto of Visit Spokane highlights outdoor recreation, an Inland Northwest passion for more than a century. Short winters, dry climate and a yearly average of…
Walla Walla: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
On April 30, 1806, the Corps of Discovery "took leave of those honest people the Wallahwallahs," Meriwether Lewis noted in his diary. Other important moments of Western settlement in Walla Walla would…
Spokane House: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
Spokane House was Washington state's first fur-trading post and home to Jaco Finlay, a clerk for the North West Company of Montreal. The son of a Scottish trader and an American Indian "country wife,"…
Taking Flight: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
In 1929, aviator Nick Mamer and mechanic Art Walker held the Spokane Sun-God aloft for five days and nights - America's first nonstop, round-trip transcontinental flight. Refueling in the air was the…
Spokane's Baseball Indians: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
Spokane's minor league baseball team, known since 1903 as the Spokane Indians, unveiled a new logo in 2006 with the blessing of the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Teams with Indian nicknames, logos,…
Make Way for Rising Waters: The 1310 Line and the Flooding of Lake Roosevelt
How do you get two tribes, six counties, and nine federal agencies to agree on something? As work began on the Grand Coulee Dam, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was busy acquiring the land that would…
Making Way for the Freeway: Liberty Park
Decline of the old Liberty Park began in the 1950s when the Spokane Park Board decided to fill in the pond for health reasons. In 1952 the city decided to dump nonburnable waste into the depression…