Red Spruce makes a great specimen or evergreen hedge.  It likes full sun, and mulch will help keep its roots cool in summer.  
 
Its needles are fragrant, and its greenish, purplish cones mature to a reddish brown, usually in the mid-fall.  
 
Important for wildlife, Red Spruce provides food and cover for deer, rabbits and other mammals, and warblers and woodpeckers depend on spruce for nearly half their diets. 
 
Red Spruce also is an important lumber tree and, beginning in the 1800s, was logged nearly to death in the Northeast, right after all the White Pines were taken.
 
Fun fact: Red Spruce "gum" was once package for chewing gum.