Abstract

Papers and records relating to the business interests of Philip Buehner (1858-1940), an engineer and lumberman. Buehner developed municipal water-supply projects in Washington state and Oregon, and, in partnership with with Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, supplied pipelines for the Bull Run water system for Portland, Oregon. Buehner also operated multiple Oregon lumber companies.

Abstract Papers of Portland, Oregon, contractor Max W. Lorenz (1884-1952), a German-American immigrant who ran the Lorenz Brothers Construction Company with his brother Walter Lorenz, and who supervised the construction of Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. Materials in the collection mostly relate to the Lorenz Brothers Construction Company. Items include a date book, a book of estimates, specifications for an office building, correspondence, and a Lincoln High School handbook that belonged to Lorenz's...