A beautiful stained glass window in vista house...oregon...On a June afternoon in 1916, an unlikely cast of characters gathered at a panoramic overlook above Oregons Columbia Gorge to break ground for the historic wayside building known as Vista House. They included rifle-toting national guardsmen, Portland tycoons, and the reigning Portland Rose Festival monarchs, Queen Muriel and King Joy. President Woodrow Wilson even participated long-distance from the White House. On cue, he pushed a button that unfurled an American flag on that windswept bluff. Thousands cheered, guns fired, and the Rose King christened the soil with Temperance-approved loganberry juice.