Park triangle dedicated at 12th Avenue and Rockwood Boulevard

A fourth triangle park on Spokane’s South Hill is now being marked with a new sign by the Spokane Parks Department and Rockwood Neighborhood.

The triangle park is located at 12th Avenue and Rockwood Boulevard.

Three other triangles were marked with signs in 2008. They are located along South Garfield Road in the Rockwood National Historic District.

The new sign was scheduled for a dedication on Wednesday.

City officials and neighborhood leaders were expected to honor the Rockwood Garden Club, which has maintained the park, the most landscaped of the four, since 1960, according to a news release from the neighborhood.

The Olmsted Brothers firm of Brookline, Massachusetts, designed the Rockwood Historic District for developer Jay P. Graves in 1909.

The brothers also produced a large master plan for Spokane parks during those years. It became a blueprint for future park acquisitions, including a wide swath of conservation land that remains as undeveloped open space near the Spokane River and above Latah Creek.

Jim Price, a local historian, said in the Rockwood Neighborhood Council news release that the “Olmsted report, still influential, unified 10 existing locations, including Manito, Corbin and Coeur d’Alene parks, and recommended almost a dozen each of new parks and playfields to be scattered throughout the city.”

He said the event Wednesday “is an opportunity among other things to recognize the parks department.”

The city parks department mows the triangle park lawn and provides irrigation while the garden club, currently headed by Molly Jakubczak, provides flower plantings.