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The
Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens are located
within Pioneer Park and the Marycliff-Cliff Park
National Register Historic District in Spokane,
Washington. The gardens are sited on the north face of a
steep bluff that faces West Seventh Avenue in what was
once called "the Hill," one of early Spokane’s most
socially prominent neighborhoods.
Located on a very steep hillside strewn with massive,
rocky basalt outcroppings, the garden landscape rises
quickly in elevation from 2032 feet at Seventh Avenue,
to 2210 feet at its most southern terminus at the top of
a jagged, sheer cliff that borders Cliff Drive.
Encompassing 5.6 acres (the Corbin Garden is 2.7 acres
and the Moore-Turner Garden is 2.9 acres), the property
is characterized by the historic Georgian Revival style
D.C. Corbin House, a well-groomed lawn, and a paved
road. Parts are covered in a thick natural vegetation
comprised mostly of coniferous and deciduous trees and
shrubs indigenous to the Inland Northwest.
Beneath the overgrowth of vegetation are the remnants
of the Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens,
including: structural foundations for greenhouses, a
conservatory and a teahouse; native basalt columns and
staircases leading to a 70 foot pond and pergola; a
reflection pond; worn pathways to a castle overlook; and
flowering bulbs emerging from a perennial garden once
noted as the largest in the Northwest!
Page updated
June 28, 2006.
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