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Midnite Mine
In 1954, the long and deadly hand of the Cold War touched the Spokane Reservation. Uranium was found in the remote mountains. To exploit this fuel and bomb-making material the Midnite Mine opened…
Michael P. Anderson Memorial
A graduate of Cheney High School and the University of Washington, Michael P. Anderson was a proud Washingtonian.
He was described by friends and family at his memorial service as being "a humble,…
Mica Peak and Prohibition
Mica Peak today is a popular hiking spot with the entrance at Liberty Lake Regional Park. The very qualities that make it perfect for recreation today made it perfect for another activity nearly a…
Merlin Hotel: The Place For You
The faded sign at the top of this building, The New Merlin Hotel-tells two stories. One is the story of pioneering women business owners; the other is of the slow decline of a neighborhood.
Merkel Field: The Home of Whitworth's Baseball Team
Field of Dreams
Mearow Block
The Mearow Block began as two separate buildings the Bickett Hotel built in 1905 and the Richmond Hotel built in 1907. Joseph A. Mearow bought the two buildings and in 1928 connected them with a…
McMillan Hall: The Oldest Building on Campus: Where Whitworth had its beginning in Spokane.
McMillan Hall is a residence hall for college students located on the campus of Whitworth University. Mac, as it is more famously known among students and alums, is the oldest building on the…
McEachran Hall: Where the President Works his Magic
: McEachran Hall: the administrative nerve center.
McEachran Hall serves principally as the current administration building at Whitworth University. The building is also home to the office of the university’s president, Beck Taylor. Students come here…
Mayor James Chase: The First Black Mayor of Spokane had a Humble Beginning
Born in 1914 to a working-class African American family in dusty Wharton, Texas, James E. Chase might not have seemed like a future mayor. The youngest of seven, money was right in his family,…
Mason City
In the depths of America's Great Depression, news of a huge construction project in Washington State brought a flood of unemployed men seeking jobs. The "mushroom towns of the Grand Coulee" sprouted…
Marble Bank Building
It was once considered by Spokanites as the most beautiful bank building west of the Mississippi River.
Rose Hill: Manito Park Tour
When Francis Cook bought the land that would become Manito Park, he named it Montrose Park for its incredible selection of wild roses. Before Rose Hill was created, the area you are looking at was a…
Park Bench Cafe: Manito Park Tour
The Park Bench Cafe marks the boundary between the zoo and the rest of the park at the corner of Tekoa and Manito. The zoo was part of Manito Park from 1905 to 1932.
The area were the cafe now…
Picnic Shelter: Manito Park Tour
The Downtown Spokane Rotary Club constructed this cooking shelter in November 1960 at a cost of about $16,000. Dessigned by Henry Bertelsen, Eddy Carlson, and James Architects, It enclosed 2000…
Upper Manito Playground: Manito Park Tour
This area of the park has always been a playground area for children, and if you had visited this section in 1910, it might have looked about the same. The playground is at the southern most edge of…
Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Garden: Manito Park Tour Spokane Park Highlights Tour
Before the Japanese Gardens, this area was part of the zoo from 1905 to 1932. This area was home to ostrich and emu.
The Japanese Garden was designed by Nagao Sakurai. He designed 166 gardens all…
The Manito Park Zoo: Manito Park Tour Spokane Park Highlights Tour
The Zoo was part of Manito Park from 1905 to 1932. There were several small animal cages near Rose Hill and the rock gardens, which housed skunk, coyote, bobcat, and other animals. While the zoo was…
Mirror Pond: Manito Park Tour Spokane Park Highlights Tour
The lake before you originally stretched from Division to Grand. First named Mirror Lake, this shallow water feature (between two and five feet deep depending on the season), has been known over the…
Mammoth Undertaking for Cheney Students
In the early 1990s, second-graders in Mrs. Sara Jane Aebly’s class at Windsor Elementary School discovered that Washington State did not have an official state fossil. Encouraged by their teacher,…
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…
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…
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,…
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 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,"…
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…
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…
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,…
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 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. …
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…