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The Cannon Hill Park Addition Project is funded by a
grant from the Washington State
Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP). The
objective of the project is to survey the Cannon Hill Park Addition, a
distinctive neighborhood of historic homes on curvilinear and diagonal
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the Olmsted-designed Cannon Hill Park. Bounded roughly by South Lincoln
and South Bernard Streets, and West 16th and West 25th Avenues, the
twenty-seven block area known as the Cannon Hill Park neighborhood was
rapidly developed around the turn-of-the-century. The area was platted
into 50-foot residential lots and boasted a 15-acre park developed by
the Olmsted Brothers of Brookline,
a large parkway boulevard along W. 21st Avenue with nearly eight miles
of shade trees, two street car lines, and restrictive design covenants
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to protect neighborhood development. By the 1940s, the entire platted
addition known as Cannon Hill Park was
developed with a high concentration of Craftsman style homes, in
addition to homes in the Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival styles.
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The
project is an architectural survey of Cannon Hill Park Addition,
that will meet DAHP’s current survey
standards using the DAHP Historic Property Inventory Database, for an
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on Spokane’s upper South Hill.
The project is designed to maximize grant funding by hiring a consultant
to complete a two phased project that will also rely heavily on the use
of volunteers. In the first phase, the Historic Preservation Office will
oversee a reconnaissance survey of about 300 homes in the neighborhood.*
Survey photography will
be performed by volunteers from
Spokane Preservation
Advocates (SPA), who have successfully photographed two previous
surveys in Spokane, and t he
Spokane Camera Club. The survey information will be compiled and entered into the electronic database by city staff. In the second phase,
a hired consultant will select and survey 60-70 of the best
representative property types.
(*Note: the reconnaissance level
survey occurred on October 7, 2006)
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The
impact of the project is the opportunity to document an architecturally
significant area of Spokane . City Planners and Cannon Hill Park
residents will use the historic survey in order to identify the
important historic resources, and the outcome will be beneficial for
future planning. The tangible results from the survey will be the
documentation of an area which has not been previously surveyed.
The project responds to broader community needs to begin to survey an
area of significant historic homes on Spokane’s upper South Hill, where
there are potentially 2,000-3,.jpg) 000
National Register eligible properties. There are seven historic
additions on upper South Hill, however, Cannon Hill Park Addition was
selected as the first survey area because it contains the most cohesive
development of historic homes surrounding a highly intact
Olmsted-designed park.
For a map of the Cannon Hill Park Addition, click
here.
~Check back often for updates on the project~
Cannon Hill
Project Updates
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On October 7, 2006, Spokane Preservation Advocates
(SPA) and the Spokane Camera Club worked together to photograph all of
the homes in the project area in Cannon Hill Park. The photographs
will be electronically inserted into electronic historic property
inventory forms which will eventually include historic property
information on every house in the project boundaries.
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On December 7, 2006, Preservation Director Teresa
Brum and Preservation Specialist Aimee Flinn met with residents at the
Manito/Cannon Hill Neighborhood meeting to discuss the project and
provide a timeline for completion of the survey. A neighborhood
preservation sub-committee was revived; this will include a group of
interested neighborhood residents who will meet several times over the
course of the project and work in conjunction with the Preservation
Office. Neighborhood resident Amy Shook will be leading the committee.
If you're interested in joining the neighborhood preservation
committee, please contact the Historic Preservation Office at (509)
625-6983 or via email at
kamrshall@spokanecity.org.
To view the handouts provided at the meeting, click
here.
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On March 20, 2007, the neighborhood preservation
committee, led by neighborhood resident Amy Shook, had their first
meeting to review progress on the project. Currently HPO staff have
completed approximately 170 historic property inventory forms.
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A Request for Proposals
(RFP) was sent out on August 10, 2007. The objective of the RFP is
to locate an historic preservation consultant to complete the second
phase of the survey project, which will include an intensive level
survey of 60-70 homes in the Cannon Hill Park Addition, including
some type of enhancement element (such as a broader historic study,
a connection to 2008's Olmsted Celebration, etc.).
To learn more about neighborhood preservation, click
here.
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~ For more information, contact Karen Marshall at (509)
625-6983, or via email at
kmarshall@spokanecity.org. ~
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