Steckbeck, Kristine Nicole2020-05-272020-05-272012-03https://hdl.handle.net/1794/25350118 pagesThe historic built environment associated with drying prunes in Oregon and Washington has been faced with the problem of a changed agricultural economy that has made prune driers obsolete and endangered structures on the Pacific Northwest landscape. There is a need to better understand how these buildings were influenced by local and national agricultural trends during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Extant prune drying structures generally have been altered and bear little resemblance to their precursors. The present building stock of prune drying structures illustrates the decline of a great pomological industry that peaked in the 1920s. Expansion of the dried prune industry during the late 19th century is reflected in agricultural literature which developed in response to the advent of prune driers. Not only are physical remnants of the dried prune industry rapidly disappearing, but documented information about them is also increasingly scarce.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USTerminal Project