Oregon's Capitol Buildings EPUB

by Tom Fuller

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The state of Oregon has had not one, not two, but three state capitol buildings.

Two of them met a sudden and unexpected end,destruction by fire.

William Willson, a pioneer of Salem, donated some acres from his Donation Land Claim for a state capitol.

The first, built in 1855, may have been torched in a desperate fight to move the capitol to Corvallis.

A second capitol, built in 1873, was patterned after the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

This capitol, adorned with a beautiful copper-clad dome, faced west toward the Willamette River.

On April 25, 1935, a fire started in a basement storage area.

It quickly spread to the whole structure, and within four hours, the entire thing lay in ruins.

After an exhaustive design process, a new capitol was built in the midst of the Great Depression, topped with a golden pioneer.

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