Timberline Lodge is a mountain lodge on the south side of Mount Hood in Clackamas County, Oregon, about 60 miles east of Portland.
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10 Facts About Timberline Lodge
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Publicly owned and privately operated, Timberline Lodge is a popular tourist attraction that draws two million visitors annually.
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Timberline Lodge was a better workman, a better citizen, progressing by infinitely-slow steps to the degree above him.
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Architect of Timberline Lodge is Gilbert Stanley Underwood, noted for the Ahwahnee Hotel and other lodges in the U S national park system.
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Timberline Lodge was constructed between 1936 and 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project during The Great Depression.
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Timberline Lodge's designed the iconic "snow goose", the 750-pound bronze weather vane above the head house.
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Timberline Lodge's commissioned murals, paintings and carvings from Oregon's WPA artists.
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Timberline Lodge took over only a few years before skiing exploded in popularity in the late 1950s.
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Exterior views of Timberline Lodge were used in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the Stephen King's 1977 novel set at the fictional Overlook Hotel.
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Brief exterior views of a snowy Timberline Lodge were used as a stand-in for a "Bavarian Ski Resort" in multiple episodes of Hogan's Heroes.
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