Timberline Lodge: From great depression job creator to ski resort icon

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Its exterior is known worldwide as the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's classic 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining, but Timberline Lodge's history has deeper, and less sinister, roots.

The Lodge was originally built in an effort to employ Oregonians during the Great Depression as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Works Progress Administration."

Using almost entirely local materials, hundreds of Oregonians came together to build the lodge.