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At 4:20 am on morning of August 2, 1873, a fire started on First Street near Taylor, [2] at the Hurgren & Shindler furniture store. Fueled by the oils and varnishes in the store, the fire burned hot and spread rapidly. [3] By 4:40 am, just twenty minutes after its start, the fire had spread a block and the nearby Metropolitan Hotel was a ...
[3]: 124 Starting at a Red Cross office building, the flames spread to the hotel, which at the time was being used as a furniture store. The fire was contained by the evening after the combined use of 1,000,000 US gallons (3,800,000 L; 830,000 imp gal) of foam retardant and water. Within a year, both buildings were rebuilt and reopened. [14]
Shortly after 1 p.m., fire crews were dispatched to Eddies Liquidation Center, a furniture store, after smoke was seen coming from the building. Fire at Cudahy strip mall damages furniture store ...
A staple in the city, the building got its name from Harper Furniture, which was the go-to store for the area’s home decoration needs from 1968 until its closure in 2005.
In 1996, Heilig-Meyers arranged to buy another 20 stores from McMahan's. [13] Whether the 1996 sale was completed is unknown. Of the stores remaining, three were closed in 2006. [9] The last 17 [14] [9] [1] stores, including two La-Z-Boy Furniture Gallery locations [3] (one in California and one in Oregon), were closed in 2008.
The blaze to the north, called the Oregon fire, started near the community of Elk and has burned 8,300 acres of farm fields and forest. And an estimated 30 structures were lost, said Guy Gifford ...
Location of Marion County in Oregon. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Oregon, United States, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
The Durkee Fire, burning near the Oregon-Idaho border about 130 miles (209 kilometers) west of Boise, Idaho, caused the closure of a stretch of Interstate 84 again Wednesday. Amid rapidly forming ...