[OR_Archaeology] 'LOST OREGON' PRESENTATION SLATED FOR PORTLAND

[Susan White]

'LOST OREGON' PRESENTATION SLATED FOR PORTLAND

Historian Richard Engeman will present "Lost Oregon," a selection of
resources from Oregon's now-vanished built environment, at 10 a.m. May
22 at the Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Ave., Portland.

In the past 250 years, Oregonians have built, and then lost, many
remarkable structures, from Chinook longhouses to the Capitol
Building,
from nabob’s mansions to towering wooden trestles. Wood, our most
common construction material, is cheap and adaptable; it also burns
well
and rots easily. Social and economic fluctuations have also driven
changes in the built environment, as railroad trestles were superseded
by freeway ramps, and country churches gave way to trailer courts.

Engeman is the author of "Wood Beams and Railroad Ties: The History of
Oregon’s Built Environment" (online at www.ohs.org) and "The Oregon
Companion: an Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious, and the
Arcane."