<PAGE>
As filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on August 17, 1994.                       Registration No. 33-    


                     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549

                                  FORM S-8

                        REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                         THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                        LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
           (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                  Delaware                         93-0609074
          (State of incorporation)      (IRS Employer Identification No.)

          111 S.W. Fifth Avenue
          Portland, Oregon                                         97204  
(Address of principal executive offices)                         (Zip Code)


       LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION 1994 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                          (Full title of the plan)


                           Anton C. Kirchhof, Jr.
                                  Secretary
                        Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
                            111 S.W. Fifth Avenue
                           Portland, Oregon  97204
                          Telephone (503) 221-0800
         (Name, address, and telephone number of agent for service)

                       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
=============================================================================
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                      Proposed Maximum   Proposed Maximum
Title of Securities    Amount to be    Offering Price       Aggregate          Amount of
  to be Registered      Registered       Per Share        Offering Price    Registration Fee
____________________________________________________________________________________________
  <S>                  <C>                   <C>           <C>                <C>
  Common Stock         700,000 shares        (2)           $21,918,750(2)     $7,558.24(2)
 (par value $1
  per share)(1)

============================================================================================

(1)  Includes rights under the 1994 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

(2)  Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the proposed maximum aggregate offering price and the
     registration fee have been computed based upon the average of the high and low sales
     prices, $31.3125, reported for the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange-
     Composite Transactions on August 11, 1994.

</TABLE>
<PAGE>
                                   PART II

             INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents filed by the registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are incorporated by reference in this registration
statement:

     (a)  The registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
  December 31, 1993.

     (b)  The registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters
  ended March 31, 1994, and June 30, 1994.

     (c)  The description of the registrant's Common Stock included as
  Exhibit 99 to the registrant's Report on Form 8-K dated July 27, 1994.

     All documents filed by the registrant subsequent to those listed above
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     Not applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     Indemnification

     Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law ("Law") provides
that any director against whom a claim shall be successfully asserted under
said section for an unlawful payment of a dividend or an unlawful stock
purchase or redemption shall be entitled to be subrogated to the rights of
the corporation against stockholders who received the dividend on, or assets
for the sale or redemption of, their stock with knowledge that the same was
unlawful.  Said section also provides that any such director shall be
entitled to contribution from the other directors who voted for or concurred
in the unlawful dividend, stock purchase, or redemption.

     The registrant's certificate of incorporation and bylaws provide that
the registrant shall indemnify its officers and directors to the full extent
permitted by Section 145 of the Law, as amended from time to time.  Said
Section 145 authorizes a corporation, under certain conditions, to indemnify
each person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a
director, officer, employee, or agent of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust, or other enterprise (including an employee benefit
plan), against certain expenses, judgments, fines, and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with any
threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative, or investigative in which he was or is a party or
is threatened to be made a party by reason of being or having been such
director, officer, employee, or agent.  In addition to the indemnification
authorized by Section 145 of the Law, the registrant's bylaws provide that
the registrant shall indemnify any natural person (not including non-employee
lawyers, accountants, actuaries, investment advisers, or arbitrators acting
in such capacity) who is or was serving in a fiduciary capacity with respect
to one of the registrant's employee benefit or welfare plans or who is or was
performing any service or duty on behalf of the registrant with respect to
such a plan, against all expenses, judgments, fines, and amounts paid in
settlement incurred by such person in connection with any action or
proceeding arising out of such service or performance, to the extent such
expenses and amounts are insurable but not covered by collectible insurance
or otherwise indemnified.  Such indemnification shall not be available to any
person who participated in or knowingly failed to take appropriate action
with respect to any violation of any responsibilities or obligations imposed
upon fiduciaries by law, knowing such to be a violation of such
responsibilities or obligations.

     Insurance

     The registrant maintains directors' and officers' liability insurance
under which the registrant's directors and officers are insured against loss
(as defined) as a result of claims brought against them based upon their acts
or omissions in such capacities.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits.

     The Index to Exhibits listing the exhibits required by Item 601 of
Regulation S-K is located at page II-5.

Item 9.  Undertakings.

     (a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
     made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

               (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section
          10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities
          Act");

               (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
          events arising after the effective date of the
          registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
          amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
          aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
          information set forth in the registration statement;

               (iii)  To include any material information with
          respect to the plan of distribution not previously
          disclosed in the registration statement or any material
          change to such information in the registration statement;

Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if
the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
("Exchange Act") that are incorporated by reference in the registration
statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
     Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
     a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
     and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
     the initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
     amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at
     the termination of the offering.

     (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.

     (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6
above, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of
the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. 
In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other
than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed
by the final adjudication of such issue.  The undertaking of the registrant
in the preceding sentence does not apply to insurance against liability
arising under the Securities Act.
<PAGE>
                                 SIGNATURES

The Registrant.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Portland, state of Oregon, on the
15th day of August, 1994.

                                        LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
                                        (Registrant)

                                        By   /s/ WILLIAM L. HEBERT            
                                             William L. Hebert
                                             Treasurer

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated as of the 15th day of August, 1994.

               Signature                          Title
               ---------                          -----

     (1)  Principal Executive Officer 
           and Director

     HARRY A. MERLO*                         Chairman, President and Director


     (2)  Principal Financial Officer:

          /s/ WILLIAM L. HEBERT              Treasurer
            William L. Hebert


     (3)  Principal Accounting Officer:

     JAMES F. ELLISOR*                       Controller, Operations


     (4)  A majority of the Board
          of Directors:

     PIERRE S. DU PONT IV*                   Director
     JAMES EISSES*                           Director
     BONNIE GUITON HILL*                     Director
     DONALD R. KAYSER*                       Director
     FRANCINE I. NEFF*                       Director
     RONALD L. PAUL*                         Director
     CHARLES E. YEAGER*                      Director


     *By      /s/ ANTON C. KIRCHHOF, JR.          
            Anton C. Kirchhof, Jr.
                Attorney-in-fact
<PAGE>
                              INDEX TO EXHIBITS




4.1       Articles Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth of the
          registrant's Restated Certificate of Incorporation, defining the
          rights of holders of Common Stock.  Incorporated by reference to
          Exhibit 3(a) to the registrant's Form 10-Q report for the second
          quarter of 1993.

4.2       Article I, Article II, Sections 2 and 11, Article IV, Article VII
          and Article X of the registrant's Bylaws, as amended, defining the
          rights of holders of Common Stock.  Incorporated by reference to
          Exhibit 3(b) to the registrant's Form 10-Q report for the second
          quarter of 1993.

4.3       Rights Agreement as Restated as of February 3, 1991, between the
          registrant and First Chicago Trust Company of New York as Rights
          Agent.  Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the registrant's
          Form 8-K report dated March 18, 1991.

5         Opinion of Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen as to the legality
          of the securities being registered.

23.1      Consent of Arthur Andersen & Co., independent accountants.

23.2      Consent of Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen (included in
          Exhibit 5).

24        Power of attorney of certain officers and directors.



     Other exhibits listed in Item 601 to Regulation S-K are not applicable.
<PAGE>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on August 17, 1994.                       Registration No. 33-    

                     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549

                                  FORM S-8

                        REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                         THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                        LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
           (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                  Delaware                         93-0609074
          (State of incorporation)      (IRS Employer Identification No.)

          111 S.W. Fifth Avenue
          Portland, Oregon                                         97204  
(Address of principal executive offices)                         (Zip Code)

       LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION 1994 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                          (Full title of the plan)

                           Anton C. Kirchhof, Jr.
                                  Secretary
                        Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
                            111 S.W. Fifth Avenue
                           Portland, Oregon  97204
                          Telephone (503) 221-0800
         (Name, address, and telephone number of agent for service)

                       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
=============================================================================
Proposed Maximum   Proposed Maximum
Title of Securities    Amount to be    Offering Price       Aggregate          Amount of
  to be Registered      Registered       Per Share        Offering Price    Registration Fee
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Common Stock         700,000 shares        (2)           $21,918,750(2)     $7,558.24(2)
 (par value $1
  per share)(1)

============================================================================================

(1)  Includes rights under the 1994 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

(2)  Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the proposed maximum aggregate offering price and the
     registration fee have been computed based upon the average of the high and low sales
     prices, $31.3125, reported for the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange-
     Composite Transactions on August 11, 1994.
PART II

             INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents filed by the registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are incorporated by reference in this registration
statement:

     (a)  The registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
  December 31, 1993.

     (b)  The registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters
  ended March 31, 1994, and June 30, 1994.

     (c)  The description of the registrant's Common Stock included as
  Exhibit 99 to the registrant's Report on Form 8-K dated July 27, 1994.

     All documents filed by the registrant subsequent to those listed above
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     Not applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     Indemnification

     Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law ("Law") provides
that any director against whom a claim shall be successfully asserted under
said section for an unlawful payment of a dividend or an unlawful stock
purchase or redemption shall be entitled to be subrogated to the rights of
the corporation against stockholders who received the dividend on, or assets
for the sale or redemption of, their stock with knowledge that the same was
unlawful.  Said section also provides that any such director shall be
entitled to contribution from the other directors who voted for or concurred
in the unlawful dividend, stock purchase, or redemption.

     The registrant's certificate of incorporation and bylaws provide that
the registrant shall indemnify its officers and directors to the full extent
permitted by Section 145 of the Law, as amended from time to time.  Said
Section 145 authorizes a corporation, under certain conditions, to indemnify
each person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a
director, officer, employee, or agent of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust, or other enterprise (including an employee benefit
plan), against certain expenses, judgments, fines, and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with any
threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative, or investigative in which he was or is a party or
is threatened to be made a party by reason of being or having been such
director, officer, employee, or agent.  In addition to the indemnification
authorized by Section 145 of the Law, the registrant's bylaws provide that
the registrant shall indemnify any natural person (not including non-employee
lawyers, accountants, actuaries, investment advisers, or arbitrators acting
in such capacity) who is or was serving in a fiduciary capacity with respect
to one of the registrant's employee benefit or welfare plans or who is or was
performing any service or duty on behalf of the registrant with respect to
such a plan, against all expenses, judgments, fines, and amounts paid in
settlement incurred by such person in connection with any action or
proceeding arising out of such service or performance, to the extent such
expenses and amounts are insurable but not covered by collectible insurance
or otherwise indemnified.  Such indemnification shall not be available to any
person who participated in or knowingly failed to take appropriate action
with respect to any violation of any responsibilities or obligations imposed
upon fiduciaries by law, knowing such to be a violation of such
responsibilities or obligations.

     Insurance

     The registrant maintains directors' and officers' liability insurance
under which the registrant's directors and officers are insured against loss
(as defined) as a result of claims brought against them based upon their acts
or omissions in such capacities.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits.

     The Index to Exhibits listing the exhibits required by Item 601 of
Regulation S-K is located at page II-5.

Item 9.  Undertakings.

     (a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
     made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

               (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section
          10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities
          Act");

               (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
          events arising after the effective date of the
          registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
          amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
          aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
          information set forth in the registration statement;

               (iii)  To include any material information with
          respect to the plan of distribution not previously
          disclosed in the registration statement or any material
          change to such information in the registration statement;

Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if
the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
("Exchange Act") that are incorporated by reference in the registration
statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
     Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
     a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
     and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
     the initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
     amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at
     the termination of the offering.

     (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.

     (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6
above, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of
the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. 
In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other
than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed
by the final adjudication of such issue.  The undertaking of the registrant
in the preceding sentence does not apply to insurance against liability
arising under the Securities Act.
SIGNATURES

The Registrant.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Portland, state of Oregon, on the
15th day of August, 1994.

                                        LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
                                        (Registrant)

                                        By   /s/ WILLIAM L. HEBERT            
                                             William L. Hebert
                                             Treasurer

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated as of the 15th day of August, 1994.

               Signature                          Title
               ---------                          -----

     (1)  Principal Executive Officer 
           and Director

     HARRY A. MERLO*                         Chairman, President and Director

     (2)  Principal Financial Officer:

          /s/ WILLIAM L. HEBERT              Treasurer
            William L. Hebert

     (3)  Principal Accounting Officer:

     JAMES F. ELLISOR*                       Controller, Operations

     (4)  A majority of the Board
          of Directors:

     PIERRE S. DU PONT IV*                   Director
     JAMES EISSES*                           Director
     BONNIE GUITON HILL*                     Director
     DONALD R. KAYSER*                       Director
     FRANCINE I. NEFF*                       Director
     RONALD L. PAUL*                         Director
     CHARLES E. YEAGER*                      Director

     *By      /s/ ANTON C. KIRCHHOF, JR.          
            Anton C. Kirchhof, Jr.
                Attorney-in-fact
INDEX TO EXHIBITS

4.1       Articles Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth of the
          registrant's Restated Certificate of Incorporation, defining the
          rights of holders of Common Stock.  Incorporated by reference to
          Exhibit 3(a) to the registrant's Form 10-Q report for the second
          quarter of 1993.

4.2       Article I, Article II, Sections 2 and 11, Article IV, Article VII
          and Article X of the registrant's Bylaws, as amended, defining the
          rights of holders of Common Stock.  Incorporated by reference to
          Exhibit 3(b) to the registrant's Form 10-Q report for the second
          quarter of 1993.

4.3       Rights Agreement as Restated as of February 3, 1991, between the
          registrant and First Chicago Trust Company of New York as Rights
          Agent.  Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the registrant's
          Form 8-K report dated March 18, 1991.

5         Opinion of Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen as to the legality
          of the securities being registered.

23.1      Consent of Arthur Andersen & Co., independent accountants.

23.2      Consent of Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen (included in
          Exhibit 5).

24        Power of attorney of certain officers and directors.

     Other exhibits listed in Item 601 to Regulation S-K are not applicable.