Building History

Portland, OR,-based engineers Stevens and Thompson offered to produce a study and preliminary plans for a sewage treatment plant in Lewiston, ID, in 1955. An note in the Lewiston Tribune said: "The Lewiston City Council was offered a contract for a study of plans for a sewage disposal plant. H. Loren Thompson of the Portland engineering firm of Stevens and Thompson said his firm would make a study and submit preliminary plans for $2,100." (See Lewiston Tribune.com, "60 Years Ago: 07/12/1955," published 07/12/2015, accessed 11/14/2023.) Stevens and Thompson, and its forerunner firm, Stevens and Koon, developed a specialty designing sewage treatment and water systems for large municipalities in OR and across the Pacific Northwest after World War II.

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