[or-roots] The Forestry Building

[Barbara Wulf]

Oregon End of the Trail Binfords and Mort Portland 1940

Pg 223 - Portland

The Forestry Building (open 9-5 daily), NW. 28th Ave., between NW. Vaughn and NW. Upshur Sts., made entirely of fir, is a weather-beaten structure 206 feet long, 102 feet wide, and 72 feet high.  In the vast interior, accentuating the great size, are fifty-two log pillars six feet in diameter, that support the roof and a gallery of small logs.  On the floor are sections of great logs nine or ten feet in diameter, and polished slabs of various kinds of commercial lumber.  Doubtless the largest log cabin in the world, 1,000,000 feet, board measure, of logs went into its construction.  It was a feature of the Lewis and Clark exposition of 1905.  It is occupied only by a caretaker.


Barb
wulf at bendcable.com
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