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The Forestry Building, constructed as part of Portland’s Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition of 1905. It was destroyed by fire...

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The Forestry Building, constructed as part of Portland’s Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition of 1905. It was destroyed by fire on 17 August 1964

Oh huh, never heard of this. You would be surprised what a shadow the 1904 St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exhibition (“World’s Fair”) casts on American cultural history.

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