Forestry Building at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, 1909

• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Robert A. Reid (Seattle, Wash.) 1909
• Subjects: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle; Wash.); Exhibitions > Washington (State) > Seattle; Exhibition buildings > Washington (State) > Seattle; Buildings > Washington (State) > Seattle; Forests and forestry > Washington (State) > Seattle; Forestry Building (Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition; 1909; Seattle; Seattle. Expositions. A.Y.P; Pacific; Yukon; Alaska
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Transcribed from photograph: "The largest log house in the world, now one of the University group, was the Forestry Building of the A.Y.P. Exposition. It is 144x320 ft. and the roof is supported by 124 immense unhewn logs forty feet high." From the Official guide to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: "The Forestry building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition is one of the most striking structures on the grounds and is a city block in length. At the close of the exposition this building will revert to the University and Washington's seat of learning will be the only educational institution in the world having a building of that character for use of students taking the forestry course. The Forestry building is one of the largest log houses ever built."" The building has a frontage of 320 feet and in width is 144 feet. About the front of the building are 124 logs, each forty feet high, containing 6,000 feet in board measure. The weight of each log is estimated at 50,000 pounds. The logs used on the exterior of the building are left in the rough, while those used in the interior have the bark removed. At each end of the building is a tower built of small logs, reached by a spiral stairway. The building has a balcony for exhibition purposes. The Forestry building is entirely complete and all exhibits were in place thirty days before the exposition opened. The exhibit in the Forestry building is complete in every detail. There is a comprehensive display of timber of various kinds showing the logs just as they leave the forest, besides sections and cross-sections of the big timbers. The various kinds of woods in a finished condition are also displayed and there are many samples showing flooring, paneling, ceiling work and other uses to which wood is put to decorate the interior of residence and office buildings. In connection with the forestry exhibit at the exposition is the timber testing plant located in the machinery hall adjoining the Forestry building. During the progress of the exposition timbers of every ...