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| Object Name | Klamath County Armory and Auditorium (Klamath Falls, Oregon)
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| View | exterior: Rear facade, showing small, rear addition. Looking southeast. (Taken by SHPO staff, February 2011). |
| Creator/Role | Howard Randolph Perrin (architect, 1891-1980)
Edward P. Brosterhouse (builder/contractor)
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| Creator | Perrin, Howard R.
Brosterhouse, Edward P.
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| Date | 1935
1969
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| Decade | 1930-1939
1960-1969
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| City | Klamath Falls
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| County | Klamath
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| State/Province | Oregon
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| Country | United States
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| Site Detail | 1451 Main Street |
| Photograph Date | 2011
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| Cataloger | Edward H. Teague |
| Object Type | architecture
built works
views (visual works)
exterior views
cultural centers (buildings)
museums (buildings)
history museums (buildings)
natural history museums (buildings)
military buildings
armories
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| Period/Style | Art Deco |
| Signficance | National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2011) |
| Notes | The Klamath County Armory and Auditorium was designed by local architect Howard Perrin and constructed in 1935 during the middle of the Great Depression to meet the growing county's need to have a place to accommodate large gatherings and help build a sense of community. The building was designed in the Classical Moderne styling of Art Deco architecture with an emphasis on verticality in its tall windows and engaged columns. Decorative architectural elements on the exterior include cast-stone stylized eagles and helmeted soldier figures, while the interior boasts a stylized painted floral ceiling and an impressive laminated arched wood roof spanning the central hall space. The building is important for this architecture but also for its role in providing space to the Oregon National Guard's 249th Coast Artillery and for recreation and entertainment in Klamath Falls and the greater county through the 1960s. The Klamath County Armory and Auditorium functioned for a number of years as a community center for local activities and large public gatherings, as well as a venue for boxing and wrestling matches, circuses, community dances, and also musical acts that ranged from Duke Ellington and B.B. King, to Tex Williams and Hank Thompson. The Armory and Auditorium was converted for use as the Klamath County Museum in 1969 and the building remains today as the museum's biggest and most important artifact. |
| Metadata Notes | Description of this work is based initially on documentation supplied by the image provider. It is often the case with gift slides that very little information is provided. Review and updating of descriptive information by the collection cataloger is ongoing. |
| Digital Collection | Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
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| Source Collection | Architecture & Allied Arts Library, University of Oregon Libraries, http://library.uoregon.edu/aaa/ |
| Image Source | Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/SHPO/ |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Copyright | This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oreg |
| File Name | pna_23166.jpg |
