Historical Marker
Downing Hotel
Historical marker location:
1033 Northwest Bond Street, Bend, Oregon
( Marker is on Northwest Bond Street near Northwest Greenwood Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)
Built: 1919-20.
Oregon is home to the largest living organism in the world, the Armillaria ostoyae fungus. The fungus covers over 2,200 acres of forest and is estimated to be over 2,400 years old.