Historical Marker

Pringle Block

Historical marker location:
1001 Northwest Wall Street, Bend, Oregon
( Marker is at the intersection of Northwest Wall Street and Northwest Oregon Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Northwest Wall Street.)

Built: 1916. The Eriksen Building.

The largest living organism in the world is a fungus in Oregon. The Armillaria ostoyae fungus covers over 2,200 acres of forest in eastern Oregon and is estimated to be over 2,400 years old. It is also known as the "Humongous Fungus."