South wing of the Old Forestry Building, University of Washington, circa 1910-1930
Filed in: UW - Old Forestry Building (#438) The Forestry Building was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. It was sponsored by the State of Washington and was intended to showcase the state's forest resources. Architects Charles Saunders and George Lawton created a building th...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:uwcampus/35771 2023-05-15T18:48:56+02:00 South wing of the Old Forestry Building, University of Washington, circa 1910-1930 United States--Washington (State)--Seattle Scanned from a photographic print at 100-200 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2016 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/uwcampus/id/35771 unknown University of Washington Campus Photographs University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number or Negative Number] http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/uwcampus/id/35771 For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections. University of Washington Subject Files. PH Coll 700 Photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T15:57:52Z Filed in: UW - Old Forestry Building (#438) The Forestry Building was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. It was sponsored by the State of Washington and was intended to showcase the state's forest resources. Architects Charles Saunders and George Lawton created a building that echoed the European style of Howard's buildings but which also incorporated the log-cabin idiom of early pioneer buildings. Featuring enormous unprocessed logs felled in Chehalis (now Gray's Harbor) County, the Forestry Building's grand colonnade and soaring interior spaces evoked the majesty of Washington's seemingly limitless forests and, not coincidentally, implied the great potential wealth they contained. An article in the Seattle Times called it “Nature's storehouse, which is more striking than anything man could devise as a display of the Northwest's greatest division of natural wealth.” Located on the site of the present-day Husky Union Building, it served for a time as a forest and botanical museum and also housed the Burke Museum, then known as the Washington State Museum. By 1931, however, insects and the elements had taken their toll and the building was demolished. Other/Unknown Material Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Log Cabin ENVELOPE(-134.954,-134.954,59.766,59.766) Pacific Saunders ENVELOPE(-45.316,-45.316,-60.700,-60.700) Yukon |
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Filed in: UW - Old Forestry Building (#438) The Forestry Building was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. It was sponsored by the State of Washington and was intended to showcase the state's forest resources. Architects Charles Saunders and George Lawton created a building that echoed the European style of Howard's buildings but which also incorporated the log-cabin idiom of early pioneer buildings. Featuring enormous unprocessed logs felled in Chehalis (now Gray's Harbor) County, the Forestry Building's grand colonnade and soaring interior spaces evoked the majesty of Washington's seemingly limitless forests and, not coincidentally, implied the great potential wealth they contained. An article in the Seattle Times called it “Nature's storehouse, which is more striking than anything man could devise as a display of the Northwest's greatest division of natural wealth.” Located on the site of the present-day Husky Union Building, it served for a time as a forest and botanical museum and also housed the Burke Museum, then known as the Washington State Museum. By 1931, however, insects and the elements had taken their toll and the building was demolished. |
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South wing of the Old Forestry Building, University of Washington, circa 1910-1930 |
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South wing of the Old Forestry Building, University of Washington, circa 1910-1930 |
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South wing of the Old Forestry Building, University of Washington, circa 1910-1930 |
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South wing of the Old Forestry Building, University of Washington, circa 1910-1930 |
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South wing of the Old Forestry Building, University of Washington, circa 1910-1930 |
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South wing of the Old Forestry Building, University of Washington, circa 1910-1930 |
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south wing of the old forestry building, university of washington, circa 1910-1930 |
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United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
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ENVELOPE(-134.954,-134.954,59.766,59.766) ENVELOPE(-45.316,-45.316,-60.700,-60.700) |
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Log Cabin Pacific Saunders Yukon |
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Log Cabin Pacific Saunders Yukon |
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University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections. University of Washington Subject Files. PH Coll 700 |
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University of Washington Campus Photographs University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number or Negative Number] http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/uwcampus/id/35771 |
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