Editing Moscow, Idaho (section)

==History==
[[File:UI-arboretum-spring-moscow-id-us.png|thumb|[[University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden|UI Arboretum's]] north entrance]]
Indigenous people who inhabited what is now Moscow, Idaho include the [[Nez Perce]], [[Palouse people|Palouse]], and the [[Coeur d'Alene people]] (Schitsu’umsh).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/about/landacknowledgment.html#:~:text=U%20of%20I%20Moscow%20is,place%20home%2C%20since%20time%20immemorial | title=Land Acknowledgment Information|publisher=University of Idaho}}</ref>

===Community===
Miners and farmers began arriving in the [[Idaho Panhandle|northern Idaho]] area after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. The first permanent settlers came to the Moscow area in 1871. The abundance of [[camassia|camas]] bulbs, a favorite fodder of pigs brought by the farmers, led to naming the vicinity "Hog Heaven." When the first US post office opened in 1872, the town was called "Paradise Valley," but the name changed to "Moscow" in 1875. The name Paradise persists in the main waterway through town, Paradise Creek, which originates at the west end of the Palouse Range, flows south to the [[Idaho State Highway 8|Troy Highway]], and west to Pullman where it enters the South Fork of the [[Palouse River]].

Historians have disputed the precise origin of the name ''Moscow''. There is no conclusive proof that it is connected to the [[Moscow|Russian capital]], though various accounts suggest it purposely evoked the Russian city or was named by Russian immigrants.<ref>{{cite book |last=Monroe |first=Julie R. |year=2003 |title=Moscow: Living and Learning on the Palouse |location=Charleston, SC |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |pages=30–31 |isbn=0738524255 |oclc=52263784}}</ref> Another account claims that the name derives from a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe named "Masco".<ref>{{cite book|last=Gunther|first=John|author-link=John Gunther|title=[[Inside U.S.A. (book)|Inside U.S.A.]]|page=114|location=[[New York City|New York]], [[London]]|publisher=[[Harper & Brothers]]|year=1947}}</ref> Early settlers reported that five local men met to choose a proper name for the town, but could not agree. The postmaster, Samuel Neff, then completed the official papers for the town and chose ''Moscow'' for the name. Neff was born in [[Moscow, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Homer David|title=Moscow at the Turn of the century|url=https://www.latahcountyhistoricalsociety.org/_files/ugd/c533b2_7434feb27aab4404953977894dfef83b.pdf|year=1979|publisher=Latah County Historical Society|language=en-US|access-date=2022-12-31}}</ref>

By 1875, the town had a business district that was a center of commerce for the region. By 1890, the [[Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company]]'s rail line (later the [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]]) and the [[Northern Pacific Railroad|Northern Pacific railroad]] line helped boost the town's population to 2,000.

The capital of the [[Idaho Territory]] was relocated from [[Lewiston, Idaho|Lewiston]] to [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]] in December 1864. In the late 1880s, [[U.S. state|statehood]] for the [[Washington Territory]] was nearing. Because its commercial and transportation interests looked west, rather than south, the citizens of the [[Idaho Panhandle]] passionately lobbied for their region to join Washington, or to form an entirely separate state, rather than remain connected with the less accessible southern Idaho. To appease the residents of the north, the [[Territory (country subdivision)|territorial]] [[legislature]] of Idaho in Boise placed the new [[land grant university]] in Moscow, which at the time was the largest city other than Boise in the state. The [[University of Idaho]] was chartered in January 1889, and first opened its doors to students in October 1892.<ref>{{cite web|last=Schwantes |first=Carlos |title=Brief History of the University of Idaho |work=About the University of Idaho |publisher=[[University of Idaho]] |year=2007 |url=http://www.ucm.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=86022 |access-date=2007-04-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204050404/http://www.ucm.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=86022 |archive-date=February 4, 2007 }}</ref>

In March 1890, Moscow's neighboring city, [[Pullman, Washington|Pullman]], became the home of Washington's land grant institution. The college that became [[Washington State University]] opened its doors in January 1892. Washington entered the union as the 42nd state in November 1889 and Idaho entered next, eight months later, in July 1890.

===Moscow City Hall and Old Post Office===
{{Main|Moscow City Hall (Idaho)}}
[[File:Moscow City Hall 2016.jpeg|thumb|right|upright|The Old Post Office, constructed in 1910, now the current City Hall (2016)]]

===Moscow Public Library===
Members of the [[Pleiades Club]] and Ladies' Historical Club formed a cooperative named the Women's Reading Room Society and established a small library in the Browne building at the corner of Main and Second Streets in 1902.<ref name=wgslbr>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=b9cyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5719%2C808512 |newspaper=Idahonian |title=Women's group started library plans rolling |last=Reed |first=Mary |agency=(Latah County Historical Society)|date=February 7, 1987 |page=10 }}</ref>

In 1904, the committee planned to raise funds for a new library building. [[Andrew Carnegie]] promised funding of $10,000 if the community agreed to maintain a free [[public library]] at the rate of at least $1000 annually. Moscow voters approved a permanent tax in 1905 and with successful [[fundraising]] by subscription of local residents and businesses, coupled with the [[Carnegie library]] money, the library construction was begun in 1905. In March 1906, the [[Mission Revival Style architecture|Mission Style]] building was ready for occupancy. Later that month, a fire at the university's [[Administration Building, University of Idaho|Administration Building]] totally destroyed that structure, so the new library was used for university classes during the day and residents used the library in the evening. Beginning in 1907 the building was returned to full use as a library. The original library building (which is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]) was expanded in 1931 and 1983. It houses a children's room named for Moscow native [[Carol Ryrie Brink]], the author of 1936 [[Newbery Medal]] winner ''Caddie Woodlawn''.

In 2006, the Friends of the Library celebrated a Century of Service for the organization. The current organizational structure of library service encompasses all public libraries in Latah County as the Latah County Library District. The library enjoys broad support from the citizens of Moscow and the county and is also supported by the [[Idaho Commission for Libraries]] (formerly the Idaho State Library.)

The Moscow Public Library currently houses about 60% of Latah County Library District's 100,000 volume collection. Administrative, technical, youth services, and branch services offices for the Library District are all housed at this location as well. The library offers year-round programming for all ages, including storytimes and a summer reading program for children, book clubs for teenagers and adults, and presentations by outside experts and organizations. The library also offers public Internet access computers as well as free wifi.

The library serves as resource for all the residents of Moscow, or as one essayist (Ellis Clark) in the 2006 contest states, "When time, money, or circumstances bind you to one locale, the Library is your passport for travel."<ref>{{cite news|last=Spurling|first=Carol Price|title=Moscow Public Library: a century of service 1906-2006|place=Moscow, Idaho|publisher=Moscow Public Library|year=2006}}</ref>

===1970 to 2009===
The opening of Moscow Mall (now Eastside Marketplace)<ref name=mmlmt78>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tb5eAAAAIBAJ&pg=1866,2615177|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |title=Moscow Mall moves closer to completion|date=July 9, 1978|page=1D}}</ref><ref name=bfbmml>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z7sjAAAAIBAJ&pg=2421%2C1429588 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=White |first=Vera |title=Bennett family buys Moscow Mall |date=December 18, 1993 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=emrmmll>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=78EjAAAAIBAJ&pg=4909%2C2965670 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=White |first=Vera |title=Eastside Marketplace replaces Moscow Mall |date=August 29, 1994 |page=1A}}</ref> and Palouse Empire Mall (now [[Palouse Mall]]) in the late 1970s<ref name=ofacil>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nE9OAAAAIBAJ&pg=6683%2C3561694 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |last=Cross |first=Helen |title=Mall, other facilities rising at Moscow |date=April 30, 1976 |page=3 }}</ref><ref name=ismmfs>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fspeAAAAIBAJ&pg=2613,6006881|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Is Moscow Mall for sale? It depends on who's talking|date=November 15, 1979|page=2C }}</ref> shifted many retail businesses away from the aging city center, with buildings dating to the 1890s.<ref name=midbrickmap>{{cite news|url=http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ott/id/105|publisher=University of Idaho Library: Ott Historical Photograph Collection|title=Moscow, Idaho (original brick buildings map) |date=c. 1970|access-date=September 5, 2012}}</ref> The&nbsp;city developed a revitalization project for downtown in the early 1970s that included a major traffic revision,<ref name=traf72>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YO9LAAAAIBAJ&pg=1971,2023217|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|title=Road cost cut seen|date=June 21, 1972|page=7}}</ref><ref name=pondrcup>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IpRfAAAAIBAJ&pg=2384%2C5292300 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |title=Joint meeting to ponder Moscow couplet system |date=October 21, 1973 |page=11}}</ref> which was enacted in&nbsp;1981.<ref name=skepcoun>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Yc5eAAAAIBAJ&pg=4820%2C1290114 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |last=Moulton |first=Kristen |title=Moscow developer draws skepticism from council |date=August 4, 1981 |page=6B}}</ref><ref name=dwntwnkm>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ys5eAAAAIBAJ&pg=5647%2C1716181|work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |last=Moulton |first=Kristen |title=Downtown |date=August 5, 1981 |page=1B}}</ref><ref name=mmstrdy>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a85eAAAAIBAJ&pg=5421%2C5532888 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |title=Moscow Main Street will be ready for traffic Aug. 24 |date=August 14, 1981 |page=2B}}</ref><ref name=uig82>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1982/39|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|title=Which way do I go?|date=Spring 1982|page=34}}</ref> Traffic from [[U.S. Route 95 in Idaho|US 95]] on Main Street was diverted a block away to one-way corridors on Washington (northbound) and Jackson (southbound) streets, to alleviate congestion and improve pedestrian safety and the overall city center experience.<ref name=onewayor>{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/9738?_ga=2.19858941.474210526.1503119308-374550616.1499903542 |work=Argonaut |publisher=University of Idaho |title=One way or another |date=August 25, 1981 |page=4}}</ref> Main Street was converted from four busy lanes with metered parallel parking to two lanes of local retail traffic with free diagonal parking; its sidewalks were modified and trees were added.<ref name=decdff>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IZMrAAAAIBAJ&pg=3591%2C2596123|newspaper=Idahonian|title=A decade of difference|last=Long|first=Ben|date=July 27, 1991|page=1A}}</ref> At the north end of Moscow, southbound highway traffic divided west at 'D' Street to Jackson and returned to Main at 8th; the northbound route divided east at 8th, but returned to Main four blocks earlier in the north end, {{nowrap|at 1st Street.<ref name=first80>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CINfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3432,1587237|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Moscow agrees to traffic changes|date=July 8, 1980|page=1B}}</ref><ref name=uplbfmc>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qoNfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3434%2C1041959 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=United Paving low bidder for Moscow couplet|date=December 3, 1980|page=8B}}</ref>}}

The original 90-degree [[Couplet (traffic)|couplet]]s of 1981 used existing streets of the grid.<ref name=uig82/><ref name=onewayor/> Planners intended these as temporary,<ref name=first80/> but they remained for years. The primary safety hazard was inexperienced truck drivers—excessive speed through the tight corners led to toppled loads and subsequent traffic snarls, with occasional damage to adjacent structures.<ref name=intrs89>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=29ctAAAAIBAJ&pg=5004%2C878655|newspaper=Idahonian|last=McCann|first=Sheila R. |title=Interest stirs again for long-delayed interchange on U.S. 95|date=June 23, 1989|page=1A}}</ref> The new, straighter couplets at the north end are both over a block in length and eliminated existing structures. The return couplet from Washington Street runs from 1st Street to beyond 'A' Street; it eliminated the original front portion (white stucco chapel) of the Corner Club tavern at the northeast corner of 'A' and Main, which was demolished in early 1991<ref name=partyover>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=19901207&id=e5MrAAAAIBAJ&pg=2366,638830
|newspaper=Idahonian|last=Long|first=Ben|title=Roadwork ends party in half of Corner Club|date=December 7, 1990|page=1A}}</ref><ref name=ccdem>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cJMrAAAAIBAJ&pg=3129,4216759|newspaper=Idahonian|last=Long|first=Ben|title=A real bar bash: Corner Club demolished|date=January 9, 1991|page=1A}}</ref><ref name=arg191>{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/9072?_ga=2.217479762.57567899.1505954049-374550616.1499903542 |work=Argonaut |publisher=University of Idaho |last=Bartlett |first=Maureen |title=Local "watering hole" torn down |date=January 15, 1991 |page=17}}</ref> after staving off its elimination for over a decade.<ref name=tub>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=isNeAAAAIBAJ&pg=5285,296618 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Johnson|first=David|title=To the Club for a tub!|date=September 2, 1979|page=1B}}</ref> The building on the southeast corner, {{nowrap|the Idaho Hotel,<ref name=idah75>{{cite news|url=http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ott/id/1|publisher=University of Idaho Library: Ott Historical Photograph Collection|title=Idaho Hotel |year=1975|access-date=September 3, 2012}}</ref>}} {{nowrap|built in 1890,<ref name=midbrickmap/>}} was razed for the traffic project in 1977 and was a vacant lot for {{nowrap|over a decade.<ref name=idhtommc>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PlZOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5587,3502524|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle|last=Cross|first=Helen|title=Hotel yields to cars|date=May 27, 1977|page=3}}</ref><ref name=ottw77>{{cite web|url=http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ott/id/67|publisher=University of Idaho Library: Ott Historical Photograph Collection|title=Formerly the Location of the Idaho Hotel |date=July 13, 1977|access-date=September 3, 2012}}</ref>}}

The first of the new couplets was completed during the summer of 1991.<ref name=crewstart>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=19910604&id=7ZMrAAAAIBAJ&pg=1627,523166 |newspaper=Idahonian|last=Long|first=Ben|title=Crews start rerouting Moscow street|date=June 4, 1991|page=12A}}</ref><ref name=frtrffc>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G5MrAAAAIBAJ&pg=2509,958861|newspaper=Idahonian|last=Goetsch|first=Lara|title=1st traffic flow through Moscow couplet|date=July 10, 1991|page=12A}}</ref> The new southbound couplet to Jackson Street was completed the following year in 1992<ref name=pave92>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=scUjAAAAIBAJ&pg=2082,5543532|newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News|title=Clarkston firm wins Moscow project|date=March 27, 1992|page=12A}}</ref> and begins north of 'C' Street. It eliminated a former service station at the northwest corner of 'C' and Main, which had been converted to other retail <!--(305 N. Main, Sea Swiper, Moreno's, Northwestern Mountain Sports)-->for over a decade. The critical couplet at the south end of the city was delayed several times for various reasons.<ref name=intrs89/><ref name=scoupdec94>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tookAAAAIBAJ&pg=6351,1584546|newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News|last=LaBoe|first=Barbara|title=South couplet back to drawing board|date=December 17, 1994|page=10A}}</ref><ref name=citypitch95>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tookAAAAIBAJ&pg=6351,1584546 |newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=LaBoe |first=Barbara |title=City makes pitch for south couplet |date=May 16, 1995|page=10A}}</ref><ref name=cplt96>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xs0qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iNAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5154%2C2138057|work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=Burton |first=Gregory H. |title=New state plan will remake Moscow's southern entrance |date=October 25, 1996 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=aheadcp98>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MookAAAAIBAJ&pg=5793,1977440 |newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=Boswell |first=Nina |title=Moscow will move ahead with couplet |date=April 25, 1998|page=1A}}</ref> Completed in 2000,<ref name=scoupfin>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1rVeAAAAIBAJ&pg=2016,3190670 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |title=Moscow work will divert traffic |date=July 27, 2000 |page=7A}}</ref> it is two blocks south and one block east of the 1981 divider at 8th Street. After Sweet Avenue, northbound Main Street bends a block east to align with northbound one-way Washington Street, intersecting the two-way [[Idaho State Highway 8|Troy Highway]] from the southeast. Southbound US 95 traffic joins the intersection from the northwest, arriving on a one-way diagonal from Jackson Street. Agricultural buildings on the block between Jackson and Main (College St. to Lewis St.) were razed in the late 1990s to complete this new corridor.<ref name=citypitch95/> The&nbsp;completion of the south couplet allowed [[Gritman Medical Center]] to expand southward, over Eighth Street.

Another significant change to local commerce was the increase of the state's legal [[U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state|drinking age]] to 21 in April 1987,<ref name=idnow21>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sZMrAAAAIBAJ&pg=3109%2C1088682|title=Late birthday means two-year wait to drink|newspaper=Idahonian|last=Trillhase|first=Marty|date=April 10, 1987|page=1}}</ref><ref name=id21sc>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g4NOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5045%2C2169544|newspaper=Spokane Chronicle|agency=Associated Press|title=In Idaho, be 19 today, or gone tomorrow|date=April 10, 1987|page=1}}</ref> after nearly fifteen years at age&nbsp;19.<ref name=srid190772>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ae9LAAAAIBAJ&pg=7404%2C5645510|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|title=Bar business boom?|date=June 30, 1972|page=9}}</ref><ref name=sdcid19072>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MaNYAAAAIBAJ&pg=7224%2C4260481 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |agency=UPI |title=Idahoans to see several changes|date=June 30, 1972|page=6}}</ref> Many establishments that relied on revenues from 19- and 20-year-olds from the two university communities had to adjust or cease operations.<ref name=newage21>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RpQrAAAAIBAJ&pg=2211%2C141287 |newspaper=Idahonian |title=The Palouse in review: #3 - A new legal drinking age |date=January 1, 1988 |page=1A}}</ref> Prior to the lowering to 19 in July 1972, the drinking age in Idaho was 20 for beer and 21 for liquor and wine.<ref name=bldat19>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B9ovAAAAIBAJ&pg=4452,1019951 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |title=Bills lower drinking age to 19 in Idaho |agency=Associated Press |date=March 18, 1972 |page=1}}</ref>

[[File:Moscow-id-us-main-st-rain.png|thumb|right|Downtown Moscow in 2007, at Main & 5th streets]]
A fixture of the Moscow skyline for nearly a century,<ref name=aerph52>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WnxWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6990%2C3987271 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |agency=(aerial photo)|title=Moscow, Idaho, second in air series, shows its postwar growth |date=July 21, 1952 |page=14 }}</ref> the concrete grain elevators on south Main Street were demolished in March 2007.<ref name=feb07lmt>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OXhfAAAAIBAJ&pg=5983,3668137 |newspaper=Lewiston Tribune |last=Mills |first=Joel |title=Moscow skyline is getting a new look|date=February 13, 2007|page=1A}}</ref> Located on the southwest corner of 8th & Main, the elevators were last operated by the Latah County Grain Growers.<ref name=eight30>{{cite web|url=http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ott/id/421|publisher=University of Idaho Library: Ott historical photograph collection|title=SW corner, 8th & Main streets|year=1930|access-date=September 1, 2012}}</ref><ref name=main8elev>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7alfAAAAIBAJ&pg=4716%2C2614089 |newspaper=Lewiston Tribune|title=Going down|last=Mills |first=Joel |date=March 25, 2007 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=wboc>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wNsyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3358%2C1985932|newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News|title=Wrecking ball of change|date=March 16, 2007|page=1A}}</ref> The other major concrete elevator complex, on Jackson Street south of 6th,<ref name=six80>{{cite web|url=http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ott/id/447|publisher=University of Idaho Library: Ott historical photograph collection|title=6th & Jackson streets|date=July 31, 1980|access-date=September 1, 2012}}</ref><ref name=waymrk>{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCCPP|work=Waymarking.com|title=Latah County Grain Growers Inc - Miller Elevator - Moscow ID.|access-date=September 1, 2012}}</ref> was also slated for the wrecking ball. Idle since 2005, a preservationist group saved it in 2007.<ref name=mpdn2007>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xF4zAAAAIBAJ&pg=1992,2310110|newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News|last=Drawhorn|first=Omie|title=Grain elevators to be spared|date=February 20, 2007 |page=1A}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 24, 2007 |title=Group buys Moscow grain elevator, saving it from destruction |url=http://www.agweekly.com/articles/2007/07/28/news/ag_news/news14.txt#selection-1313.9-1313.22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116150932/http://www.agweekly.com/articles/2007/07/28/news/ag_news/news14.txt#selection-1313.9-1313.22 |archive-date=January 16, 2013 |access-date=September 1, 2012 |website=Ag Weekly}}</ref><ref name=invgrp>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VGpfAAAAIBAJ&pg=4259%2C2231778 |newspaper=Lewiston Tribune |last=Mills |first=Joel |title=Investment group keeps Moscow elevator standing|date=July 23, 2007|page=4A}}</ref> Its newer large-diameter metal silo hosted summer theater productions in 2011.<ref name=theatersilo>{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2017482540_apidshakespeareinasilo1stldwritethru.html |newspaper=Seattle Times|agency=Associated Press|last=Geranios|first=Nicholas K.|title=New Moscow theater located in grain silo|date=February 11, 2012}}</ref>

===2010 to present===
Moscow is known internationally as the location of [[Christ Church, Moscow|Christ Church]] and its associated ministries: [[Canon Press]] and [[New Saint Andrews College]], as well as [[Logos School]]. Crawford Gribben suggests that Moscow is "America's most postmillennial town", since the town's two explicitly [[postmillennial]] congregations (Christ Church and Trinity Reformed Church), make up about 10% of the town's permanent population.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gribben |first1=Crawford |title=Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest |date=2021 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=53 |isbn=978-0-19-937022-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q78cEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 |access-date=9 May 2021}}</ref>

In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, [[2022 University of Idaho killings|four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death]] in an off-campus rented home in Moscow by one or more attackers using one or more long knives. The authorities have identified a suspect who faces four counts of first degree murder and one count burglary.<ref>{{cite web |last=Elamroussi |first=Aya |date=2022-11-19 |title=Here's what we know &ndash; and don't know &ndash; about the killings of 4 University of Idaho students as a suspect has yet to be identified |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/19/us/university-of-idaho-killings-saturday/index.html |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Krutzig |first1=Sally |last2=Goodwin |first2=Shaun |date=November 19, 2022 |title=How did things unfold before, after University of Idaho killings? A timeline of events |work=The Idaho Statesman |url=https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article268898017.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Kuiper |first=Anthony |date=2023-03-05|title=Moscow Murders |url=https://www.lmtribune.com/northwest/moscow-murders-what-we-know-now/article_72609dde-b2b6-57f4-9f2e-434a231f09f2.html|access-date=2023-05-31 |website=LM Tribune |language=en}}</ref>