This Oregon Restaurant in Bend Was Built Around a Towering Ponderosa Pine
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This Oregon Restaurant in Bend Was Built Around a Towering Ponderosa Pine

There is a restaurant in Bend, Oregon, where a massive ponderosa pine tree grows right up through the floor, punches through the ceiling, and keeps on reaching for the sky. The tree was there long before the building, and somehow, the builders decided to work around it instead of cutting it down. That one decision […]

By Samuel Cole

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