Vista House at Crown Point #2

by Charles Robinson

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Vista House at Crown Point #2

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Charles Robinson

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Photograph - Landscape Photograph

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Vista House is an observatory at Crown Point in Multnomah County, Oregon that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway. The site, on a rocky promontory, is 733 feet (223 m) above the Columbia River on the south side of the Columbia River Gorge. The building shows great sensitivity to its site in the Columbia River Gorge near Corbett, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Crown Point Vista House was completed in 1918. It was designed by Edgar M. Lazarus. With its marble interior and brass fixtures, some Oregonians at the time derided it as the "$100,000 Outhouse." The original idea for an observatory at the site came from Samuel Lancaster, the consulting engineer for the Columbia River Highway

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October 22nd, 2012

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