Coos County Logging Museum

The Coos County Logging Museum is museum in located in Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States. The museum's focus is the historical forest products industry, particularly logging specific to the local area of Coos County which is situated among vast forest preserves. The museum, a non-profit educational institution, is staffed entirely by volunteers, many of whom hail from the logging camps themselves.[citation needed]

Coos County Logging Museum
Photograph of a domed wooden building with a statue of a lumberjack in front
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Location705 Maple Street
Myrtle Point, Oregon, USA
Coordinates43°03′51″N 124°08′24″W / 43.064281°N 124.139870°W / 43.064281; -124.139870
TypeIndustrial museum
Websiteloggingmuseum.org
Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints
Area4,750 square feet (441 m2)[1]
Built1910[1]
Built byThomas Dickson, Charles McCracken[1]
ArchitectSamuel Giles[1]
NRHP reference No.79002050
Added to NRHPOctober 18, 1979

The museum building is a shingled dome modeled after the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[2]

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  1. ^ a b c d e Downing, William P.; Beckham, Curt (August 15, 1978), National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form: Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (PDF), retrieved September 24, 2014.
  2. ^ Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon Historic Sites Database, retrieved January 15, 2015.
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