Editing Brookings, Oregon (section)

=== Founding ===
[[File:Crew looking out of camp building windows, Brookings Timber and Lumber Company, Brookings, ca 1919 (KINSEY 2158).jpeg|left|thumb|Crew looking out of camp building windows, Brookings Timber and Lumber Company, Brookings, {{Circa|1919}}]]
In 1906, the Brookings Timber Company hired William James Ward, a graduate in civil engineering and forestry, to come to the southern Oregon Coast and survey its lumbering potential. After timber cruising the Chetco and Pistol River areas for several years, he recommended that the Brookings people begin extensive lumbering operations here and secure a townsite for a mill and shipping center.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brookings, a Live Community, Marks Once Bleak Spot of Dreary Desolation|date=April 14, 2001|orig-year=May 3, 1914|newspaper=Oregon Sunday Journal|location=Portland, Oregon|url=http://www.currypilot.com/Community/History-of-Brookings/Brookings-A-new-town-across-the-Chetco|access-date=June 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523081505/http://www.currypilot.com/Community/History-of-Brookings/Brookings-A-new-town-across-the-Chetco|archive-date=May 23, 2016|url-status=dead}} Republished by the ''Curry Coastal Pilot'' (Brookings).</ref>

While John E. Brookings was responsible for the founding of Brookings as a [[company town]], it was his cousin, [[Robert S. Brookings]], who was responsible for its actual design. The latter Brookings hired [[Bernard Maybeck]], an architect based in [[San Francisco]] who was later involved in the [[Panama–Pacific International Exposition]], to lay out the [[plat]] of the townsite.<ref name=mccoy>{{cite book  | last =McCoy  | first =Esther  | author-link =Esther McCoy  | title =Five California Architects  |  publisher =Reinhold Publishing Corporation  | year =1960  | location =New York  | page =46}}</ref>