LSA News

No. 87, February 2008

From the Fact File
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1. Originally the First Congregational Church, this historic building was designed by noted architect Walter Willcox in the early 1920's. After functioning as a church for many years, it became a mortuary and eventually a theater specializing in foreign cinema and art films. We're looking for its current appellation.


2. Designed in the Georgian Revival style by A.E. Doyle, this building was built in 1912 to serve the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Willamette Valley electric train system. Give us the name of this building where "March King" John Philip Sousa once made a stop.


3. Opened in 1925 as a place for viewing silent films, this building, designed by Thomas & Mercier, the firm that also designed the Bagdad Theater and Oriental theater in Portland, was converted to a "talkie" movie house when sound motion pictures became popular. It is now a venue for plays, musical performances and other events.


4. This second-oldest building on the UO campus was built in 1886 by a physics professor and his sons. After he retired, the university bought the property and used it at first as a library, then as a residence for a succession of UO presidents and state chancellors. More recently it served as the home of the faculty club. Currently its rooms serve as offices and classrooms for a unit of the School of Music and Dance.


5. While we may not be justified in calling a building that opened in 2000 "historic," we thought we'd include a contribution to Eugene's commercial architecture from someone with current UO connections. Tenants of the building located at Willamette Street and 18th Avenue at present include Café Yumm!, Sattva Gallary, Folkways clothing, among others. Give us the building's name, and for extra credit, the name of the UO alum and adjunct prof who heads the architectural firm that designed it.


6. Now an inn with 20 rooms, this house was built in 1892 by timber man John Cogswell for his daughter, Idaho. Idaho married a prominent doctor who died shortly after their daughter was born; the widow married a co-owner of the Daily Eugene Guard, and it is his name that currently identifies the building in the neighborhood of Skinner's Butte Park.


7. Designed by George H. Park, this building in the Italiante style opened as a hotel in 1885 and is now the only 19th century building left intact in downtown's core. The building, added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1974, is currently home to a variety of businesses, including a restaurant, an art gallery, law offices, and an antique store.


8. One of Oregon's leading architects of his time, William W. Piper completed drawings for what would be his last project — and the University of Oregon's first building — in 1873, although construction wasn't completed until 1876. The architect sued the organization that managed university's funding for lack of payment and eventually won. (He did not enjoy business success after this, however, and he is said to have committed suicide in the 1880's.) Give us the name of this building, which in 1893 was renamed for a judge of Oregon's Territorial Supreme Court.

Readers may submit their answers to Fact File by February 22. The winner, determined by the number of correct answers, will receive a gift certificate worth $10.00 toward purchases at the U.O. Bookstore, courtesy of the Library Staff Association. In the event of a tie, a single winner will be selected by lot. All staff and faculty of the University of Oregon Libraries are invited to participate.

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