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Learning the Wright way: Famed architect’s toys provide lessons

By Brenna Wiegand Twelve years ago a serendipitous string of events resulted in a dedicated band of people rescuing Oregon’s only Frank Lloyd Wright structure from demolition. The spacious oak savannah tucked below The Oregon Garden couldn’t have been a better setting, and as the classic house touched down, the spirit of the famed architect began wafting its way through […]

School facilities plan: A warning against investing in old schools

Stacks of documents with hundreds of pages describing the conditions of the buildings in the Silver Falls School District have been whittled down to two documents – one by the district’s Facilities Master Plan Committee with four pages and the other by Randal Saunders, an architect from Woodburn, with eight pages.

Both documents will serve as guidelines for Silver Falls School Board members to make decisions in the future for its facilities, such as the fate of Eugene Field School, what’s to be done with Schlador Street high school campus after the completion of the Pine Street campus and where the district office should be located.