Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018)
Exposed wood beams of enormous size (about 18”x24”) are supported by peeled log posts (30” in diameter). The interior walls feature wainscoting of California Redwood heartwood with pressed fiberboard above and on the ceiling. Newer carpeting covers the original linoleum floors. Menno Kraai, general manager, sits at original lodge furnishings, Mason Monterey table and chairs.
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Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018)
Sue Densmore, Executive Director of the Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau, stands center amongst labelled bundles of salvaged finishes and trim.
Photography for campaign to save the Chateau by Restore Oregon, Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau and Governor Kotek, listed as 11 Most Endangered Places of 2025 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserv (2018)
This is a view of the east facade and pond. The coffee shop was built out in 1937.
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Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018)
The south facade and main entrance to the lodge (under the awning). Siding is Port Orford cedar with its bark. A shed dormer is broken by two gable dormers on the upper two guest room levels.
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Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018)
The central fireplace is made of marble quarried on-site during blasting and construction. Original Mason Monterey tables and chairs populate the space alongside contemporary furnishings. The sprinkler system was added in 1955.
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Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2025)
Finishes and trim lie stacked in marked bundles waiting for the building restoration to restart.
Photography for campaign to save the Chateau by Restore Oregon, Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau and Governor Kotek, listed as 11 Most Endangered Places of 2025 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934)
Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2025)
Historic doors are stacked in the dining room awaiting restoration.
Photography for campaign to save the Chateau by Restore Oregon, Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau and Governor Kotek, listed as 11 Most Endangered Places of 2025 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2025)
This to the pond. from the grand stair. Finishes have been stripped away and the restoration of the building has stalled.
Photography for campaign to save the Chateau by Restore Oregon, Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau and Governor Kotek, listed as 11 Most Endangered Places of 2025 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Oregon Caves Nattional Monument & Preserve (2018)
This is view of the south wing from the southwest. The main entrance is under the awning. Siding is Port Orford cedar with its bark.
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Sauvie Island, Oregon (2020)
Georgian-style home, one of Oregon’s oldest surviving residences.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
John Yeon’s house for Aubrey Watzek.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
This image was made while the reflecting pond was drained in order to show its construction.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
John Yeon’s house for Oregon lumber baron Aubrey Watzek.
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Portland, Oregon (2018)
John Yeon’s house for Oregon lumber baron Aubrey Watzek.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
Exterior of living room.
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Portland, Oregon (2020)
No longer extant.
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Portland, Oregon (2020)
No longer extant.
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Eugene, Oregon (2018)
A view from the track looking south along the historic east grandstands at Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus. No longer extant. This photograph was taken two days prior to its demolition.
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These are wooden bleacher benches in the historic east grandstands of Hayward Field at the University of Oregon campus. Note seat numbers stamped into the surface of the wood.
No longer extant, this photograph was taken two days prior to demolition. Some benches and other material were salvaged for a historical exhibit to be included in the new Hayward Field track and field facilities.
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Silverton, Oregon (2021)
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957 for Evelyn and Conrad Gordon, this Usonian was built posthumously. After Evelyn Gordon’s death, it was sold to David and Carey Smith who decided to demolish it in favor of a new house. In 2001, after the Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy obtained a reprieve from dismantling it, the building was moved from Wilsonville, Oregon to the Oregon Garden at Silverton. This is Frank Lloyd Wright’s only building in Oregon.
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Silverton, Oregon (2021)
The sitting nook in the living room features custom built-in and movable furnishings. The clerestory plywood fretwork has a 15-degree angle which repeats in details throughout the house in table and countertop edging and base trim.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
Third floor landing of the grand stair.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
Grand stair ballustrade detail.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
A detail of the mechanism that opens cell doors in Cell Block ‘A’ of the county jail. No longer extant.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
Medal of Freedom recipient Minoru Yasui was detained in this cell for nine months for violating curfew for Japanese-Americans during WWII. While the county jail is no longer extant, this cell was cut apart, removed, and donated to the Japanese-American Museum of Oregon.
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Portland, Oregon (2021)
Interior detail of solitary confinement cell door with graffiti. No longer extant.
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