What is the Viking House?
The Viking House is a single-family home built by Forest Grove High School students. The program was started in 1976 by Birt Hansen to challenge and enhance the skills of the most accomplished woodworking students at FGHS. Duane Mueller and took over the program in the late 80’s. I took the program over from Duane in 1998 and continued the program’s basic philosophy that students should “learn by doing.