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The Forestry Building was constructed as part of Portland’s Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition of 1905. The cabin was an enormous structure, measuring 206 feet long (62m), 102 feet wide (31m) and 72 feet high (22 meters, approximately 7 stories). A full million board feet of lumber went into it.
It unfortunately burned completely in 1964.
htapoicoS
SomethingThatCapturesMyIdentity
Pritty sure I saw this when I visited Gravity Falls.
TailinSero
Am I the only one that sees Pennywise from IT in the photograph?
Howfuckinhardisittogetausername
Fuck those thousand year old trees, imma make a shack, yeeeha
masteryoplait
Damn that's amazing!!!
Pattosaurus20xx
I thought paul bunyan was a minnesota thing
Yupurineutah
There is a statue of him in Portland.
TheBlueMuppet
It's called the Forestry Building because it used all of the forestry.
MrJwinkyface
Offbeat Oregon history podcast does a great episode on this place.
BoatswainsMate
Kramer did it with those damn Cuban cigars again
Tcol310
Kids were just smaller back then, gosh. Get over it!
FragileDonkey
IReplyWithOldMemes
I built a bigger one in minecraft
Darksnider05
Holy poop that is a waste of good forest.
Philexspectorate
Those poor, poor trees...
Ultratoxic
I live in Portland and got super excited until the last line :(
jejorda2
Yellowstone Inn is larger and still standing. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/worlds-largest-log-cabin/
CornCobMcGee
For those non-carpenter types, board feet is volume not length. 1 square foot 1 inch thick. There. Now that is a thing you know.
nebulousned
Fuck the guy who did this.
htapoicoS
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IlluminaBlade
Log Castle
AllHailYourOneTrueOverlord
*Log mansion
taurondir
I'm looking and thinking, is it "largest, log cabin" or just "largest log, cabin"
TheatreStreet
We most likely will never have renewable resources like this ever again if we don’t plan for regrowing
eBLT4
All this talk about old growth timber. The building could have been preserved but the city neglected it. Now it's an apartment complex
mambonumberfour
Ridiculous waste of old-growth lumber, particularly for a structure that size, and for an expo building.
CatchySensibleName
You mean Americans were being wasteful? Never! /s
mambonumberfour
Americans haven't exactly cornered the market on pointless waste, but I get your point.
MosquitoHawker
“Hey look at this structure I killed several million cumulative tree-years to build”
RVAALLDAY
Before even reading the bottom text I figured it was a fire. We lost so much cool shit to fire historically. Sucks
dakotaranch
Funny, I was just looking at pictures of my grandparents yesterday and they had one of themselves next to this. They lived in portland.
Ibringchocolate
Pics!
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Pics, or you're a filthy liar!
cunninglinguist85
Blazefast
Picture
justinmytime
Ooo would love to see that picture
IIikethecutofyourjib
That is a SUPER weird coincidence. Which are...coincidentally...my favorite coincidences.
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
That’s my favourite kind of coincidence too! Weird.
MrPappagiorgioFromYuma
Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon!
Snooj
Not really when you consider the number of people browsing Imgur and how infrequently someone has a related story to a random image.
CatchySensibleName
The law of truly large numbers!
Housemaster
VirtualNaut
Lol, where is this taken from?
Cutthroatlemur
They left the bark on?
InfOracle
Sounds like the type of person that peels bananas prior to eating them....smh.
mmckee44
No. They were photoshopped back on.
Quigonjinnandjuice
Seems dangerous. I’ve heard the bark is worse than the bite.
OddlyPacific
Fire resistant
OrRo77
Does the bark make it more flammable? Probably I'm guessing
sskyrimjob
Bark protects against catching fire. One of the benefits of splitting firewood is the exposed interior catches easier
SithLoveChild
Idk why the downvotes. Bark in log structures gives insects a place to be. Accelerates decay.
macthelost
How else would you know they’re logs? Duh!
Thewayofthebear
Because they'd remain log shaped.
artistandascholar2000
They had to soak them in wood, to be sure!
SoraHjort
.... Ugh that reminded me when I was in "Da South" last year, the tap water tasted like it was soaked in wood. even made me sick...
artistandascholar2000
Avoid baths in Northern Scotland, and tap water in general. Mostly peat.
Chimichanga007
Oh you fancy?
FartPoweredPogoStick
It certainly rogers my googly....
StandBackSomeonesOffened
I bet they sand it too ?
RoscoePSoultrain
After they soak it in wood, yah.