Exploring My Neighborhood - Rockwood in Historic District

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Couple days ago I decided to walk around our new neighborhood. I knew that we had some beautiful houses in the neighborhood, but I didn’t realize there would be so many enormous houses with long driveways like in the castles that I saw in Europe.

It was impossible to take pictures of these huge houses with my phone camera because they were too far from the street and I don’t have very good zoom in feature, but I did manage to take several cute pictures of some “smaller” houses in the neighborhood and pretty sidewalks.

Let's start with a famous historic house called Cannon House, which was completed in 1911. This house was a home to Edward Cannon, a pioneer and lawyer credited as one of the founders of Gonzaga Law School, and his wife Helen.

Small building on the right used to be a carriage house, now it is a garage for regular cars :)

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The property, which includes the house, garage, front terrace/porch, and basalt rock retaining walls, is architecturally significant as an excellent example of the Colonial Revival style and as a product of Spokane architect and accomplished craftsman, Earl W. Morrison. The property represents specific building and development trends that led to prescribed residential settlement in the Rockwood neighborhood.
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While I was walking I found very pretty sidewalks with beautiful entrances to these huge houses..

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...and this is how Rockwood neighborhood starts with columns like that.

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Sidewalks are marked this way. I actually never seen anything like that in other neighborhoods.

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Here are some other pictures of the neighborhood..

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House on the right has copper roof. Looks very pretty I think!

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..and this is a church I wrote about in my previous post
It is not in the Rockwood neighborhood, but it is right by it and very close to my house (about half of mile away).

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Check my post: Cheers to a new life! - We Bought a HOUSE in a Historic District! , where I write more about the history of this neighborhood.




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Looks kind of magical...like from a wizard movie!

Beautiful pictures! Very beautiful views , amazing!

thank you :)

A famous historic house called Cannon house is indeed historic that is 107years ago that,it has been built.Congratulations on your new house that is located in historic district.

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really beautiful photography, Spring is around the corner will be a really nice scene

I think so too! should be very green and flowery :) thanks for stopping by :)

That church window is a beautiful Mandala :) I'd love to see it from the inside!

check the other post where I post more pictures about this place. a lot of pictures from inside!

The neighborhood looks fantastic. I really like the one with the copper roof must have coast a fortune :) And the name Rockwood sounds like out of a movie :)

A famous historic house called Cannon house is indeed historic that is 107years ago that,it has been built.Congratulations on your new house that is located in historic district.

thank you!

Amazing!

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hello im Nasir

Beautiful sights!!

Wow i could just leave everything and come to live there you’re so lucky in this neighborhood nice post @ella-kay

Such a gorgeous neighbourhood. And such unique and stunning architecture. I can see why its considered an historic area. I assume this is The US, but what state is it?

this is in Spokane, Washington.

Very nice in your neighborhood. And very clean(Well, I certainly compare it with my quarter here))))