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Portland Armory

... that the Portland Armory (pictured) in Portland, Oregon, was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification?
... that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha) land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, and this was the first non-domestic donation to the Oregon Parks commission?
... that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the University of Oregon's baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
... that during World War I the United States Army recruited over 28,000 soldiers for the Spruce Production Division, which harvested Sitka spruce in the Pacific Northwest?

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