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Skinner Butte

The hill on the north edge of downtown, topped by the big University of Oregon O.

Skinner Butte rises 682 feet above sea level, about 200 feet above downtown. Its park was dedicated in 1914, and the Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson House, a Queen Anne Victorian from 1880, stands on its slope.

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