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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Three Enterprise properties are the latest to achieve listing in the National Register of Historic Places: the OK Theatre, the Enterprise Mercantile and Milling Company Building, and the Enterprise IOOF Hall.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Completed in 1918, the OK Theatre served as a social center and focal point for community entertainment, bringing live and screen productions to generations of Enterprise residents. During the 1920s, Great Depression, World War II, and Post-War periods, audiences kept up with current events through newsreels shown before the evening film. The movies brought a new popular culture and mass media to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:place></st1:City>, connecting the small town with the rest of the world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The theater also served as a community hall where local productions, meetings, fundraisers, service and award programs, civil defense sessions, and other events took place. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">The EM&M, erected from 1916 to 1922 in downtown <st1:City w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State> is one of the first businesses in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:place></st1:City> instrumental in developing the downtown. After the closure of the store in 1925, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wallowa</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> acquired the building for back taxes in the early 1930s, and invested in its rehabilitation to supply needed housing for residents displaced by the Great Depression. The use of the building for apartments and retail space brought more people downtown that frequented the downtown businesses, in turn helping the local economy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Designed by the well-known architectural firm of Tourtellotte and Hummel, the three-story edifice is the largest and most impressive commercial building in downtown, covering a quarter block. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Completed after World War I in 1920, the Enterprise International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Hall played an important role as a social center for community meetings, meals, plays, dances, parties, fundraisers, and other activities. The IOOF’s motto, “Visit the Sick, Relieve the Distressed, Bury the Dead, and Educate the Orphan,” captures the organization’s mission.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Enterprise IOOF Hall symbolizes the importance lodges in the welfare of the community before the availability of social service aid. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">The City of Enterprise listed the properties using a Multiple Property Document titled “Historic Resources of Downtown Enterprise 1888-1956,” which describes the history of Enterprise. The Multiple Property Document allows owners of commercial properties an easy way to list their properties in the National Register. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">The National Park Service maintains the National Register under the authority of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. More information about the National Register and recent Oregon listings is online at <A href="http://www.oregonheritage.org/"><FONT color=#800080>www.oregonheritage.org</FONT></A> click on “National Register” at left of page). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">The Oregon Women's History Consortium, which operates the Century of Action project, seeks a part-time, temporary Project Coordinator to work on a contract basis. The application deadline is April 9. </SPAN>Visit <A href="http://centuryofaction.org/">http://centuryofaction.org</A> for application details. </P><BR><BR><BR><BR>-----------------<BR>Visit www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/OHC/Conference.shtml to learn more about the joint Oregon Heritage Conference / Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting April 26-28. <BR><BR>Follow us on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/pages/Oregon-Heritage-Conference/194597583890959 ) for updates. <BR><BR>Oregon Heritage News is a service of the Oregon Heritage Commission. Contact us by emailing heritage.info@state.or.us .<BR></SPAN></BODY></HTML>