According to the Linfield website: "Taylor Hall-- When it was brought to the Linfield campus in 1947* from its service as a World War II army mess hall in Portland, this building was meant to be used by the chemistry department as laboratory and classroom space. Today, the building is home to the business department. As such, the building contains six classrooms, three of which are designed to hold at least 35 people."*However, another website about Linfield says, "Taylor Hall was originally a mess hall located at the Portland Air Base; in 1946, it was moved" to Linfield.
A photo cutline in the 2012 book
McMinnville/Images of America says, Many former Portland Air Base buildings were moved to the college, including a theater, single-family dwellings, and the wings of the science building which once served as a mess hall.” (Portland Air Base was a base of the U.S. Army Air Corps and, later, the U.S. Army Air Forces. The U.S. Air Force as a separate military service was established in 1947.)
Taylor Hall named for Luther Taylor.
Henry Lever biography posted at Wildcatville includes a mention of Luther Taylor.
Henry Lever biography posted at Wildcatville includes a mention of Luther Taylor.
As a job in the summer of 1942 -- in the early part of World
War II -- Henry Lever's engineering background was helpful when he was involved
in the construction of what is now McMinnville Municipal Airport. He and Luther
Taylor, a Linfield chemistry professor, were runway grade inspectors. There
were two runways. He inspected one runway and Taylor inspected the other.
Construction was a wartime project funded by the U.S. Army.
Wildcatville photos 4/15/2017
