Coos County Logging Museum

{{Short description|Industrial museum in Oregon, US}}

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| image = Coos County Logging Museum (Coos County, Oregon scenic images) (cooDA0164).jpg

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| alt = Photograph of a domed wooden building with a statue of a lumberjack in front

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| location = 705 Maple Street
Myrtle Point, Oregon, USA

| type = Industrial museum

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| website = {{URL|http://loggingmuseum.org/}}

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| name = Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints

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| area = {{convert|4750|sqft}}

| built = 1910

| builder = Thomas Dickson, Charles McCracken

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| architect = Samuel Giles

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| added = October 18, 1979

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The Coos County Logging Museum is museum in located in Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States. The museum's focus is the historical forest products industry, particularly logging specific to the local area of Coos County which is situated among vast forest preserves. The museum, a non-profit educational institution, is staffed entirely by volunteers, many of whom hail from the logging camps themselves.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}

The museum building is a shingled dome modeled after the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah.{{Citation | last1 = Downing | first1 = William P. | last2 = Beckham | first2 = Curt | date = August 15, 1978 | title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form: Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints | url = {{NRHP url|id=79002050}} | accessdate = September 24, 2014 | format = PDF}}. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.{{Citation | last = Oregon Parks and Recreation Department | author-link = Oregon Parks and Recreation Department | title = Oregon Historic Sites Database | url = http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/ | accessdate = January 15, 2015}}.

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