Timberline Lodge
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 | Timberline Lodge |
| Designer | W. I. Turner, Howard Griffin, Dean Wright, Linn A. Forrest, Ward Ganno, et al. |
| Location | Government Camp, Oregon, USA |
| Date | 1936 to 1938 |
| Building Type | ski lodge, mountain lodge, Recreation And Culture |
| Construction System | rough stone masonry and heavy timber, Stone, Wood, Shingle |
| Climate | alpine |
| Context | rural mountainside |
| Architectural Style | Rustic Cascadian Neovernacular, Chalet style |
| Builder | Works Progress Administration |
| Street Address | 6 mi. (9.6 km) N of Government Camp in Mount Hood National Forest |
| Notes | At Mount Hood in Oregon, USA. A WPA masterpiece. Also attributed to A. E. Doyle. Hexagonal central space around rough stone core with fireplace. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Timberline_Lodge.html |
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| National Register of Historic Places | |
| Name | Timberline Lodge |
| ID Number | 73001572 |
| NRHP Status | Listed In The National Register |
| Certification Date | 11/12/1973 |
| Level of Significance | National |
A classic heavy-timber mountain lodge, high on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest peak. Well maintained and restored, it continues in operation as the overnight lodge of the Timberline ski area, a Mt. Hood National Forest Ski Area, with year-round sking at an elevation of 6000 feet. In winter, the ground floor of the lodge is typically fully buried in snow, with entry through a snow tunnel, or directly into the second floor.
"This iconic alpine lodge sits on the south slope of 11,239-foot Mount Hood, where it was built in just 15 months at the hands of hundreds of blacksmiths, stonemasons and farmers who scavenged the area for its timber and stones. Wildlife motifs and Native American symbols were hand-carved or welded into every corner of this three-story, 70-guest-room lodge, helping to make Timberline as much a museum as a hotel. (How many other lodges have a curator?)" — Timberline Lodge, marvel of the Works Progress Administration, by Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2008.0204.
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In the classic horror movie The Shining "The Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon was used for the front exterior, but all the interiors as well as the back of the hotel were specially built at Elstree Studios in London, England. The management of the Timberline requested that Stanley Kubrick not use 217 for a room number (as specified in the book), fearing that nobody would want to stay in that room ever again. Kubrick changed the script to use the nonexistent room number 237." IMDB
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National Register of Historic Places
[edit] External Links
- Timberline Lodge, marvel of the Works Progress Administration - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2008.0204
- http://www.nr.nps.gov/writeups/73001572.nl.pdf
- http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceID=1364&resourceType=Building
- Mount Hood History at PDXHistory.com
