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The Oakway Department store closed after only six years and was subdivided. [3] Albertsons moved to a new store in 1990 and converted to TJ Maxx the same year. [ 4 ] After Tiffany's closed in 1998, [ 5 ] it became a Borders Books & Music , which closed in 2011 and was rumored to become an H&M . [ 6 ]
Sam C. Bond was the grandson of Eugene-area pioneers Allen and Rachel Bond, owners of a 320-acre donation land claim awarded in 1853 on the current site of the Eugene Airport. Bond operated a garage on Blair Street, constructed sometime between 1918 and 1923, although Bond purchased the property in 1926.
The Shedd Institute was established in 1991 as a performing arts company focused on producing an annual summer orchestral pops festival dedicated to the championship of American classical music under the name Oregon Festival of American Music with American conductor Marin Alsop serving as music director and conductor. [2]
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The Hult Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue in Eugene, Oregon. The Hult Center is located downtown on Willamette Street between 6th & 7th Avenues, adjacent to the Graduate Eugene (previously Hilton Eugene) and Conference Center. Built using funds that were approved by voters in 1978, the Hult Center and the Hilton were ...
The largest library in Oregon is the University of Oregon's Knight Library, with collections totaling more than 3 million volumes and over 100,000 audio and video items. [187] The Eugene Public Library [ 188 ] moved into a new, larger building downtown in 2002.
KWAX (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial classical music radio station in Eugene, Oregon, broadcasting to the Eugene-Springfield, Oregon area. The station is a listener supported service of the University of Oregon. Some programming is spoken word: Episodes of My Word! and My Music were broadcast Sunday afternoons, until their discontinuation.
In April 1962 the Oregon State Board of Education approved naming the new building in honor of Prince Lucien Campbell, the university's fourth president, who served between 1902 and 1925. [9] The state also approved contracts for general construction work by Purvis Construction Co., Spokane; mechanical work by Urban Plumbing & Heating Co ...