Phippeny Park

Size: 2.5 Acres
Amenities: playground, basketball court, off-street parking, open space, tree identification area, picnic shelter and restrooms.

Phippeny Park (also known as G.O. Phippeny Park) is an older park, tucked away in the heart of Coeur d'Alenes' midtown residential area. It has lots of beautiful trees that provide ample amounts of shade and the playground was updated just a few years ago. Many species of trees are represented in the park, and most are labeled with their names for those with an interest in dendrology.

The park's name is periodically misspelled as "Phipenney."

Phippeny Park is the former site of the old Coeur d'Alene High School, which later became a community center before being closed in 1983. The buildings were later razed and the site become a park in 1989.

Geoffrey O. Phippeny was a much beloved school superintendent in Coeur d'Alene. Born in 1892, he lived see almost 100 years before his death in 1991. He is buried in Coeur d'Alene Memorial Gardens.

Phippeny served in the Army intelligence corps during World War II, graduated from the Colorado State Teachers college at Greenly, CO, and did post-graduate work at the University of Southern California and UCLA. Prior to serving as the CdA schools superintendent he was superintendent of schools in Glenns Ferry for nine years and principal of Coeur d'Alene High School for five years. He was elected to succeed Coeur d'Alene School Superintendent J.J. Rae in 1934.

Phippeny was an active community member. He was an elder of the First United Presbyterian Church as well as a choir member and adult Sunday school tacher. He was also a long-time member of the Kiwanis Club and was granted the honorary 33rd degree in Masons.