Sylviculture

1905 · réf. 57693 — Portland OR: Fred A. Shogren 1905. One silver gelatin photograph sized 8 x 9.8 in. on thick photo paper stock and appears to be direct copyprint from glass plate negative 1 small tear lower right corner dustsoiling still VG sharp image. An original photograph of the famed Forestry Building which at one time was the largest log cabin in the World featuring one million board feet of old growth timber and renowned for the collonade of 52 uniform massive matching old growth trees with 6 foot trunks. Constructed by Simon Benson for the Exposition and largely an outlier from the Spanish Renaissance Revival architecture prevalent at the Fair the Forestry Building would survive the Exposition fall into disrepair and had been mostly restored in 1959 for the Oregon Sesquicentennial Celebration. See: Michael Riscica The 1905 Leiws and Clark Exposition Young Architect 2021; Finn J.D. John Oregon Lost World’s Biggest Log Cabin in Spectacular 1964 Fire Offbeat Oregon History June 17 2012. [Fred A. Shogren, unknown