The Congress Apartments are a historic
apartment building
An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are ma ...
in
Bend,
Oregon
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,
United States
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, built in 1924. On the night of March 8, 1926, they were the scene of a
dynamite explosion targeting A. F. Mariott, a State
Prohibition
Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol ...
Officer who lived in unit 5 with his wife. There were no injuries. Although police never identified any
suspects, the attack was generally understood to be retaliation for the fatal shooting of Vayle Taylor, a suspected
moonshiner in
Crook County, on February 17. The attack highlights the extreme tensions between "wets" and "drys" in
Central Oregon
Central Oregon is a geographic region in the U.S. state of Oregon and is traditionally considered to be made up of Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook counties. Other definitions include larger areas, often encompassing areas to the north towards ...
during the Prohibition era. Separately, the Congress Apartments possess high architectural value for their
Craftsman styling, popular in Bend at the time but unusual among apartment buildings. Distinctive features include the use of disappearing, slide-out beds on the interior.
[.]
The apartment building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2000.
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See also
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References
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1924 establishments in Oregon
American Craftsman architecture in Oregon
Apartment buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Bend, Oregon
Prohibition in the United States
Residential buildings completed in 1924
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