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- ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Failing Building" (PDF). February 27, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 6, 2012. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- ↑ George A. McMath, "Whidden & Lewis" in The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art 5 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011): 199-200.
- 1 2 Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 146.
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