Tag: masonry
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Stones of Witch’s Castle
The Stone House in Portland’s Forest Park is also known as the Witch’s Castle and the basalt stone work was sourced from Rocky Butte. If you have been to the Witch’s Castle, you know its a kind of oddity of the city, a place to bring out of town visitors to experience the lush forest…
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Tunnel Vision
The Rocky Butte Road was seen as the first promontory along the Historic Columbia River Highway. The build offered both an opportunity and a challenge. It was designed so that the road was curved to fit to the landscape, basalt, so local that it was quarried from the butte itself, was placed in stone footings…
Rocky Butte Preservation Society 