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Imagine a log building that's 320-feet long, with 124 huge logs standing as pillars (each log weighing over 50,000 pounds and big enough to provide lumber for a 5-room house). All of the logs were cut within 50 miles of a major U.S. city.
The location is Seattle, and the building was constructed for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition of 1909.
"The whole front of the forestry building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition is a colonade, or, rather, a pergola of huge fir logs...In every one of the 124 huge logs of the colonade there is sufficient clear lumber to build a five-room bungalow, with enough in the rough left over for a woodshed and something in the way of a fence.... It is the largest log house ever erected. Any one of the big sticks will tip the beam at 50,000 pounds, and under each Is a pier of reinforced concrete. They are forty feet high and extend across the whole front of the structure, which Is 320 feet . All of them were cut within a radius of fifty miles of Seattle, and they were hauled to the exposition grounds over a railroad spur constructed for the purpose. During the exposition the structure will house the state's forestry exhibit; the manufacture of lumber being western Washington's chief Industry."
from A Great Exposition by Welford Beaton, The Pacific Monthly, Volume 22, July 1909
Other photos from:
https://books.google.com/books?id=4LAPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://foresthistory.org/research/Galleries/EducationForesters2_Gallery/pages/FHS3328th.htm
The location is Seattle, and the building was constructed for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition of 1909.
"The whole front of the forestry building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition is a colonade, or, rather, a pergola of huge fir logs...In every one of the 124 huge logs of the colonade there is sufficient clear lumber to build a five-room bungalow, with enough in the rough left over for a woodshed and something in the way of a fence.... It is the largest log house ever erected. Any one of the big sticks will tip the beam at 50,000 pounds, and under each Is a pier of reinforced concrete. They are forty feet high and extend across the whole front of the structure, which Is 320 feet . All of them were cut within a radius of fifty miles of Seattle, and they were hauled to the exposition grounds over a railroad spur constructed for the purpose. During the exposition the structure will house the state's forestry exhibit; the manufacture of lumber being western Washington's chief Industry."
from A Great Exposition by Welford Beaton, The Pacific Monthly, Volume 22, July 1909
Other photos from:
https://books.google.com/books?id=4LAPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://foresthistory.org/research/Galleries/EducationForesters2_Gallery/pages/FHS3328th.htm
! Reminds me a little of something Tolkien's elves might have inhabited.
