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Street layout of the city center. The street grid breaks down in the South Hill due to the challenges of the terrain. The Riverside neighborhoods is bounded by I-90 to the south, Division Street to the east, Monroe Street (north of the Spokane River), West Riverside Avenue, and Sunset Boulevard (south of the Spokane River) to the west, and Boone Avenue to the north. [3]
As Riverside curves southward along the bluff cut by the Spokane river and away from its east–west position in the street grid, it eventually intersects with Sprague Avenue. Sprague is the east–west street immediately south of Riverside, and Riverside's intersection with it comes at the location where Cedar Street naturally intersects with ...
These early architectural styles occupy the neighborhoods where the integrity of Spokane's street grid pattern is largely intact (especially the former streetcar suburb areas north of downtown and south of Francis Ave.), and the houses have detached carports with backyard alleys for deliveries, and refuse collection.
Sprague Avenue plays a major role in Spokane's street grid and house numbering system, which was established by the Spokane City Council in the early 1890s. Ordinance A121, which set the system that Spokane still uses to this day, was passed by Spokane City Council on November 4, 1891. [ 4 ]
The city of Spokane surrounds the CDP on three sides: the east, south and west. [4] The city's street grid continues into Town and Country uninterrupted in the east, though it breaks down in the west along the bluff leading up to Five Mile Prairie. The bulk of the CDP lies on flat ground like the surrounding north side of Spokane.
Downtown Spokane is immediately east of the neighborhood, and spreads into West Central along Monroe Street in the Kendall Yards area. The neighborhood is diverse, with single and multi-family residential zones dating back to the early days of Spokane, a new mixed use development on the site of a former rail yard, the Spokane County Courthouse ...
The West Downtown Historic Transportation Corridor is a historic commercial district in Spokane, Washington located, as the name suggests, in the western portion of the city's downtown neighborhood. The district, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1999, consists mostly of buildings constructed between the ...
The southeastern portion of West Hills, on the shelf above the Spokane River and Latah Creek, is part of the city street grid. Southwest of H Street and Hartson Avenue the streets bend around the bluffs and cliffs as they climb Sunset Hill. Due to the terrain and waterways, even the part of the neighborhood on the street grid is relatively ...