Name/Title
Newspaper article about the Washington State MuseumEntry/Object ID
Q1430.634.458BDescription
Small newspaper article entitled "State Museum (Forestry Building) University of Washington Campus, Seattle, Washington" and discussing the same. Vol I pg. 458B
The State Museum is located in the Forestry Building which was erected by the State of Washington in 1909 for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The buiding is archaic Greek in style, following th linesof the old Grecian Temples. It is 312 ft. long, 128 ft. wide, 9- ft high and is surmounted with a large tower on either end, giving it a maximum height of 119 ft. The columns, beams and rafters are natural logs of Douglas fir, the principal tree found in the Washington forests and were procured within a radius of a hundred miles of Seattle. 2,016,000 ft. of logs and lumber and 300,000 cedar shingles were used in its construction, the cost being $85,000. There are 126 main columns with a height of 42 ft. to 54 ft., diameter 5 ft. to 6 ft. 6 in., and average weight of 25 tons, which if sawed into lumber would cut an average of 11,000 board feet each. The Museum collections consist of extensive exhibits of the forestry and mineral products of the state of Washington and Alaska, and natural history groups of birds, animals and marine fauna of the northwest coast. In the balcony are large and rare collections illustrative of the life, arts and industries of the native tribes of the northwest coast from the Columbia river up through Arctic Alaska, besides Philippine, Chinese, historical and art collections.Subject
University of Washington
State Museum
Seattle, WashingtonSubject Person/Organization
Harry L. George Collection