Clocktower

The Clocktower serves as a stage backdrop during the Pig Out festival over Labor Day weekend. (Mike Prager)

Great Northern Depot Tower

The Great Northern Depot Tower is about all that remains from the era of railroading that occupied what is now Riverfront Park, the site of the Expo ‘74 world’s fair. When the depot was demolished in the early 1970s, designers found matching brick to re-face the section of the tower exposed by demolition. Spokane owes much of its growth and power as a regional commercial center to the decision of the railroads to locate their division points and maintenance facilities here. The city had three major rail yards, only one of which remains along East Trent Avenue at Parkwater. The cross-continent Empire Builder passenger train passed through here daily. The 1902 depot was considered the finest west of Chicago.

Source: City of Spokane, Spokesman-Review

Directions to the next stop: Northern Pacific Railway depot