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Last Friday we had our "AETTA FRIDAY", which was our early Thanksgiving feast with lots of yummy food and an exciting game of Jeopardy with our very own Tim "Trebeck" who went all in with the game.

October 2nd 1934 - Lower Columbia Junior College, Now known as the Lower Columbia College, opened in Longview just five months after the first meetings to explore the necessity for post-secondary education in Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties. Students registered for classes at Korten's Music Store in Longview, Dahlman Hardware in?Castle Rock, and the Orr Furniture Store in?Kelso.?Fifty-three students attend classes in rooms rented from R. A. Long High School. Classes will move to the Longview library in 1940 and onto a dedicated campus in 1950. The second year, 96 students enrolled. With help from the Weyerhaeuser and Long-Bell companies, forestry classes were offered. The companies allowed the school to use their properties to train foresters. In the early 1940s, the demand for classes resulted in use of the Longview Public Library. The first building of the main campus was completed in 1950. Lower Columbia Junior College became part of the Longview School District and changed from a junior college to a community college in 1961. LCC joined the state-supported community college system in 1967. Today, the college includes twenty-six buildings on 38.75 acres and enrolls between 4,000 and 5,000 students each quarter. Aetta Architects has had the honor of working with LCC on many projects and we look forward to the future working on many more together. Lower Columbia College

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The 2024 WAMOA FALL CONFERENCE is underway. We are starting off this beautiful day in the sun with our very talented Katelyn manning the tee box. Katelyn Tetlow, Don Luthardt, Lauren Johnson, and Stephen Black will all be attending this week's conference. WAMOA

History in our Local Area. PORT OF CENTRALIA, WA. September 16th, 1986, voters in the Centralia School District approved the creation of the Port of Centralia under a recently passed law that allows port districts to be created in regions within counties, instead of only countywide. At least two previous attempts to create a Lewis County Port District have been defeated at the polls. Three port commissioners are elected in the same vote: Bob Thompson, Art Lehman, and Gene Groshong. The Port of Centralia will focus on creating economic opportunities by acquiring and improving industrial land and recruiting business tenants. Over the next three decades, it will grow to include two industrial campuses and a mixed-use development, totaling more than 1,500 acres of land home to some 30 businesses employing more than 800 people. Port of Centralia

Architectural History for Today, September 13th... In around about way. On September 13, 1938, (86 years ago) the commissioners of the Port of Camas-Washougal held a public hearing to present the Port's first comprehensive plan to its constituents. The creation of the port district, which serves the neighboring cities of Camas and Washougal on the Columbia River, had been approved by the voters at an election three years earlier. At the time of its creation in 1935, the Port owned virtually nothing, and this first comprehensive plan marks the beginning of a process of incremental development that continues to this day. Seasonal flooding, freak storms, and rare but catastrophic inundations will challenge the Port over the years, but a levee built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1966 will allow development in previously unbuildable areas. Aetta Architects has built a few buildings for the Port of Camas-Washougal. Grove Field - FBO Building and "T" Hanger, Buildings 15, 17 & 18, and Parcel 7 Planning. Port Of Camas-Washougal

Lets do some Architectural History today. Because we are doing some work in the City of Camas. I went looking for some historical Buildings. If you have not been to Down Town Camas, you really need to pay them a visit. City of Camas, Washington. The?Farrell Building, also known as the?Charlie and Rose Farrell Building, the?C. E. Farrell Building, the?Golden Rule Store,?JCPenney, the?Fashionette?and?Farrell & Eddy Department Store, is a historic commercial building located at 305 Northeast 4th Avenue in?Camas, Washington. The FIRST women's fashion store in Camas was located in this building. The Farrell building was one of the early anchors in the development of the Camas Central Business District.? The ground floor was a general store named G.N. Ranck Grocer. The second floor was the living quarters for Mr. Rank, a Spanish-American War veteran and he was credited with naming most of Camas’ west downtown streets. The two-story building was completed for Charles Farrell by the local builder John Roffler in 1924 in the?early commercial?style of architecture. The building replaced a previous 1887 structure which was demolished. The downstairs space was rented to the chain store "The Golden Rule", which later became the?JCPenney?company. Charlie and Rose Farrell purchased the building in August of 1903. They lived upstairs and expanded the grocery business to include yard goods, notions, shoes, gifts and millinery (Rose’s specialty). Charles Farrell's widow Rose and her sister Anna Roffler Eddy moved their "The Fashionette" store into the building in 1935. In 1955, the Farrell Building was closed for modernization in an effort to keep up with other newer department stores. At the time of its closure in 1998, the building and business was under the ownership of a third generation of the Farrell family. In 2004, JoAnn Taylor purchased the Farrell Building and renovated all three floors, including the residential apartments upstairs. Taylor opened Camas Antiques on the two lower levels, intending to make Camas a destination location for antiques collectors. Taylor sold the building in 2014, but continued to lease space for Camas Antique

Wonderful Aetta Days - All Hands Meeting out at the Kalama Lodge. Port of Kalama, McMenamins Pubs & Breweries

Hey Hey Hey...... we got some Architectural History this week. September 8th 2017 The Lincoln School in Port Townsend Washington was added to the National Registry of Historic Places. Named for the former U.S. president, Port Townsend's Lincoln School, which is on the Port Townsend High School campus, was completed in 1892. It was originally a three-story building with a tower and bell. The third story was deemed unsafe and removed when a wind of hurricane force blew off the roof in 1934. 1929-ca1930 Architect Fred B. Stephen designed the new Junior High School Building (now part of the present High School), adjacent to the Lincoln School. The existing boiler room at the Lincoln School provided heat for the new building. Lincoln School received selected improvements, such as extended sewer lines and added steam heat and return drip line connections for the new Junior High. Drawings dated March 30, 1929. The Josiah C. Moore Company of Seattle served as consulting engineers. ? 1938 PWA funded remodel, designed by Fred B. Stephen. Some building repairs began in 1937 but the major remodel work began and finished in 1938. Top floor and gable roof removed in favor of a flat roof with surrounding parapet. Clock tower removed along with projecting main entrance bay, both on north facade. ? 1992 Interior alterations to east half of first floor to allow for new office use. G. C. Clements & Co. (Architect) J.T. Long & Co. (Builder) Stephens, Frederick B. (Architect) Western Construction Co. (Builder It is very sad this beautiful old brick building is now sitting used and in decay.

Architectural History in our neighborhood - It has been a while. Lewis County Courthouse - Was added to the National Registry of Historic Places on August 18th, 2014. The Lewis County Courthouse is a four-story, flat-roofed, Beaux Arts style building. The building is 90x162 feet. In 1953, construction began north of the courthouse on an annex designed by Wohleb & Wohleb & Associates . Dedicated November 19, 1954 , the Health Department and County Extension Office moved there from the courthouse basement to allow other county offices space to expand. In 1977, a second Annex, designed by James H. Hubenthal , was completed south of the courthouse. Griffin, Jack DeForest (Architect) Erickson, S. Christian (Builder: First Unit) Settergren Bros. (Builder: Second Unit The county was created as Vancouver County on December 19, 1845, by the?Provisional Government of Oregon,?named for?George Vancouver. In 1849, the county name was changed, to honor?Meriwether Lewis.?At the time, the county included all U.S. lands north of the?Cowlitz River, including much of the?Puget Sound region?and?British Columbia.?The initial establishment of a county seat was?Claquato?in 1862, the honor being relinquished in 1874 in favor of Chehalis. The first recognized court hearing in the?Washington Territory?was held in Lewis County at the?John R. Jackson Courthouse, the oldest standing courthouse in Washington. The county received official recognition as a "Purple Heart?County" in November 2019. Lewis County sits along the?Interstate 5?corridor. Lewis shares a border with eight other counties. Clockwise from the top left, those are:?Grays Harbor,?Thurston,?Pierce,?Yakima,?Skamania,?Cowlitz,?Wahkiakum, and?Pacific?counties.