Anybody know who built this house? It used to stand in The Dalles, and what a grand-looking place it was! Reprint courtesy Oregon Digital, which hosts this scanned print from the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center collection. Contact Flora Gibson at 541-993-1801, or florag@gorgenews.com, with your guess or information — we’ll credit you in next week’s history page, provided you don’t mind. Happy fact-hunting!

So far, nobody’s identified last week’s rather odd portrait of an elegant suited person attending a... well, I’m not exactly sure what that shiny machine is doing. You tell me, and then we’ll both know!