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...that the Capitol Center (pictured) has been the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon, since its completion in 1926?
... that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?
... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
... that the art deco Burbank City Hall (pictured), with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby?
... that the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm?