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The Baker City Cycling Classic is a set of bicycle races held in Baker City and the surrounding region. [39] Similar bicycle races, the Elkhorn Classic, were based in Baker City through 2011. [ 40 ] The city hosts the Oregon School Activities Association Class 1A girls and boys basketball tournaments at Baker High School in March. [ 41 ]
An original postcard of the hotel states that the hotel was built and owned by the Baker Brothers. According to the Oregonian newspaper, Mr. Geiser bought the hotel in 1900 and in 1901 planned "another story" (which obviously was not built), a reconstructed interior, and the installation of all the latest conveniences and appliances.
The Baker Municipal Natatorium, located in Baker City, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Baker Heritage Museum, previously the Oregon Trail Regional Museum, is now housed in this building.
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The Blue Mountains are a mountain range in the northwestern United States, located largely in northeastern Oregon and stretching into extreme southeastern Washington.The range has an area of about 15,000 square miles (39,000 km 2), stretching east and southeast of Pendleton, Oregon, to the Snake River along the Oregon–Idaho border.
The Diocese of Baker City, later shortened to Baker, was created in 1903, and St. Francis de Sales Church was elevated to cathedral status. The present cathedral was constructed from 1906 to 1908. The rectory was built at the same time as the cathedral, but it was completed a year earlier in 1907.
Baker City Tower or Baker Tower (originally Baker Community Hotel, then Baker Hotel) is the tallest building east of the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in Baker City. It was constructed in 1929 in the Art Deco style and is nine stories high. [ 4 ]
Baker City was incorporated in 1874. The population of Baker County nearly quadrupled from 1880 to 1910, largely due to the Sumpter Valley Railroad and several of its spur lines. The opening of the railroad helped lumber and mining operations develop. [3] In 1914 Fern Hobbs, on behalf of her employer Governor Oswald West, declared martial law ...