Home Sites Begin To Sell Around Manito Park...

The economy was healthy in 1907, but most importantly, Manito Park was ready to receive its neighborhood. To describe the building atmosphere around Manito Park, the following is a sampling of Grinnell's 1907 advertising campaign taken from various issues of the Spokesman Review:

 

 

MANITO

No section of the city, aside from the business section, is contributing so much toward the development of a Greater Spokane as the Manito residence section. This statement is not based on our opinions nor on the opinion of any person, but it is based on facts and figures which cannot be disputed. Figures sometimes lie, or at least can be made to deceive, but facts prove the statement.

 

Some Facts about Manito

10 miles of cement sidewalks.

62 houses now under construction.

1600 shade trees planted along the streets.

$35,000 spent in the public park

12 miles of graded street.

207 houses completed in 3 years.

7 miles of water mains laid.

Several miles of gas mains laid.

 

 

 

The Way Is Made Easy For You

You will never have a better opportunity to secure a home site than today. We

Let you name your own terms, and Manito property is selling at the present                                             

time below its actual value. Only a small cash payment required and you can tell us how you want to pay the balance.

 

No Other District but Manito Is Free from the Railroad Danger 

We Now Have an Automobile in Which to Show You Around

The Manito residence section is known as one of the most desirable residence sections in the city.

 

THE “MANITO KIND”

Of Home Site Is Not Found Elsewhere

 

In no other part of the city are there such beautiful surroundings as at Manito. The principal  park of the city, consisting of 95 acres; the Country Club, which  has beautiful grounds and buildings; Manito boulevard,  which is to be the show street of the city; the campus and buildings of the new Spokane College [on 29th Avenue near Grand Boulevard] and the new Rosedale boulevard , which is soon to be constructed, all surround Manito.

 

In addition to the beautiful surroundings, the building restrictions assure the Manito residence section will always be beautiful. Then, too, no railroads can ever reach Manito. It is way above them. Manito is favored with everything that could be desired for a residence section.

 

 

At Manito Park Tonight

You will find a free moving picture exhibition. Every night, Sunday excepted, there is a free moving picture exhibition in the park. There is also a free lecture, illustrated by the stereopticon, which is not only entertaining but highly instructive.

 

 

Manito is the Coolest Spot in Town

Come out this evening and enjoy the free moving picture exhibition between 8 and 9 o'clock.  It is delightfully cool and you will have an enjoyable time.

 

Every day now is a picnic day at Manito. Take a trip to Manito any evening about 6 o'clock and in the park you will find from 50 to 100 or more families eating their suppers in the coo l, open air; the coolest spot in Spokane; from 10 to 15 degrees cooler than it is in the downtown districts. If your home is in the Manito district you do not need to go to the mountains for the summer.  You have the mountain air at your home.

 

For Soil for Their Flowers The Ladies Go To Manito

Some of the richest and blackest soil in the city is to be found at Manito. It is the kind of soil that makes it easy for you to have a beautiful yard; combined with the soil are the artistic boulders and fine pines, all of which are making the South Side Hill section the most beautiful residence section.

 

Inferior or Superior Quality

Which Do You Want in Your Home Site Providing It Is Just as Easy to Secure One as the Other?

We believe that you want a home site which has superior qualities; one that is located in a part of the city which will never have any but fine residences; a home site that will grow in value as the city develops; a home site that contains the artistic features that will make it desirable; a home site located in that section of the city which contain s more public improvements than any other part-- in short--   the kind of home site you find at MANITO.

 

Not a commonplace section , but a section where the homes of all are up to the high standard for which  better residence sections  of  Spokane  have  become  noted .  A section where improvements precede the erection of the homes.

 

Next week, we will explore more of the newspaper advertising Mr. Grinnell used to attract future home owners to his new Manito Park Neighborhood.