Spectacular fire claimed world's biggest log cabin | Offbeat Oregon History
Channel: Finn John
Date: 2012-08-31

History article/slideshow: Ancient electrical wiring ignited Portland's legendary Forestry Building, a structure made of massive, flawless old-growth logs that had been built for the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905. 

Offbeat Oregon History is a weekly newspaper column that runs in about a dozen small community papers and on its web site at http://offbeatoregon.com -- this is the column that ran on June 17, 2012. It's read by the author (that's me!) and set to accompany a slideshow of images from the story.

By the way, this is new stuff to me, so apologies if it's a bit crude. They'll get better.