Timberline Lodge

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The Timberline Lodge is a mountain hotel in Clackamas County in the US state of Oregon .

The Timberline Lodge in winter 2006
South side of the Timberline Lodge in Fall 2009

location

The Timberline Lodge is located at an altitude of 1,830 meters on the south flank of Mount Hood and is accessed via a paved road. A chair lift leads from there into the forest, a ski lift to the ski slopes, which can also be used in summer.

history

As a job creation measure as part of the New Deal , the construction of the Timberline Lodge was financed from 1935 with almost 1 million US dollars from funds from the Works Progress Administration . Gilbert Stanley Underwood designed the lodge . Together with architects from the US Forest Service, he designed the hexagonal main building, from which two three-story, asymmetrical wings extend, in the rustic, asymmetrical style of the national park lodges. The building made of wood and natural stone is considered one of the most outstanding examples of mountain architecture among the objects of the Works Progress Administration . The workers for the construction were provided by the Works Progress Administration, some of the work such as road construction or excavation was carried out by workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps . The interior was designed by Margery Hoffman Smith , assistant director for the Federal Art Project in Oregon. She designed the wooden furniture, metal fittings and textiles for a unique mountain hotel. The paintings and carvings at the lodge were done by some of the finest artists in Oregon at the time. On September 28, 1937, the lodge was inaugurated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , who had traveled to Oregon with his wife Eleanor . The lodge was handed over to the Forest Service in January 1938 and opened to the public on February 4, 1938. The lodge was closed during World War II. Since the lodge was not adequately maintained, the Forest Service was withdrawn from its management in 1955 and transferred to Richard L. Kohnstamm . Kohnstamm renovated the lodge, set up a ski school program and organized events that made the lodge popular in Oregon. The Timberline Lodge has been listed as a structure on the National Register of Historic Places since November 1973 . In December 1977 it received the status of a National Historic Landmark . The heirs of Kohnstamm still operate the lodge, which is visited by two million visitors annually, to this day.

Trivia

The building served as the backdrop for some feature films; including Mutiny on the Serpent River (1952), All the Young Men (1960), Hear No Evil (1993) and Stanley Kubrick's Shining (1980).

See also

Web links

Commons : Timberline Lodge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Kohnstamm, 80. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 23, 2011 ; Retrieved May 2, 2011 .
  2. ^ Timberline Lodge on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Oregon. National Park Service , accessed February 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ http://www.approd.com/Oregon%20Movies%20Web.htm

Coordinates: 45 ° 19 ′ 51.9 "  N , 121 ° 42 ′ 40.3"  W.