The Portland Building,alternatively referenced as the Portland Municipal Services Building,is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland,Oregon. Built at a cost of US$29 million,it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time.
The Portland Art Museum (PAM) is an art museum in downtown Portland,Oregon,United States. The Portland Art Museum has 240,000 square feet,with more than 112,000 square feet of gallery space. The museum’s permanent collection has over 42,000 works of art. PAM features a center for Native American art,a center for Northwest art,a center for modern and contemporary art,permanent exhibitions of Asian art,and an outdoor public sculpture garden. The Northwest Film Center is also a component of Portland Art Museum.
St. Johns is a neighborhood of Portland,Oregon,United States,located in North Portland on the tip of the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Willamette River and the Columbia River. The iconic St. Johns Bridge crosses the Willamette from the south,leading into downtown St. Johns. It was a separate,incorporated city from 1902 until 1915,when citizens of both St. Johns and Portland voted to approve its annexation to Portland,which took effect on July 8,1915.
Kenton is a neighborhood in the north section of Portland,Oregon,United States. The neighborhood was originally a company town founded in 1911 for the Swift Meat Packing Company.
Albert Ernest Doyle was a prolific architect in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. He opened his own architectural practice in 1907. From 1908 to 1914,he partnered with William B. Patterson,and their firm was known as Doyle &Patterson.
Henry Winslow Corbett was an American businessman,politician,civic benefactor,and philanthropist in the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts,he spent his early life in the East and New York before moving to the Oregon Territory. He was a prominent figure in the early development of Portland,Oregon,and was involved in numerous business ventures there,starting in general merchandise. His interests later included banking,finance,insurance,river shipping,stage lines,railways,telegraph,iron and steel and the erection of Portland downtown buildings among other enterprises. A Republican,he served as a United States senator from 1867 to 1873.
The Washington County Courthouse in Hillsboro,Oregon is the courthouse for Washington County,Oregon,in the United States. Washington County was established in 1843 and the first government building was finished in 1852. The current courthouse was built in 1928 with an addition and renovations to the structure in 1972. Currently the building houses courtrooms,the county sheriff's dispatch,staff offices,and the office of the district attorney. The county jail was previously attached to the courthouse.
The Hillsboro Civic Center is a government-built,mixed-use development in downtown Hillsboro,Oregon,United States. The development includes the city hall for the county seat of Washington County,located west of Portland,Oregon. Covering 6 acres (24,000 m2),the Civic Center has a total of over 165,000 square feet (15,300 m2) in the complex. The total of six stories for the main structure makes the building the tallest in the city,tied with Tuality Community Hospital. In addition to government offices,the Civic Center includes retail space,public plazas,and residential housing. The complex was built to centralize city government functions under one roof.
William Sargent Ladd was an American politician and businessman in Oregon. He twice served as Portland,Oregon's mayor in the 1850s. A native of Vermont,he was a prominent figure in the early development of Portland,and co-founded the first bank in the state in 1859. Ladd also built the first brick building in Portland and was a noted philanthropist. Part of his former estate,the Ladd Carriage House,is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Portland City Hall is the headquarters of city government of Portland,Oregon,United States. The four-story Italian Renaissance-style building houses the offices of the City Council,which consists of the mayor and four commissioners,and several other offices. City Hall is also home to the City Council chambers,located in the rotunda on the east side of the structure. Completed in 1895,the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21,1974. City Hall has gone through several renovations,with the most recent overhaul gutting the interior to upgrade it to modern seismic and safety standards. The original was built for $600,000,while the 1996 to 1998 renovation cost $29 million.
Keller Auditorium,formerly known as the Portland Municipal Auditorium,the Portland Public Auditorium,and the Portland Civic Auditorium,is a performing arts center located on Clay Street in downtown Portland,Oregon,United States. It is part of the Portland's Centers for the Arts. Opened in 1917,the venue first changed names in 1966,being renamed again in 2000 in honor of a $1.5 million renovation donation by Richard B. Keller. An extensive remodeling and modernization in 1967–68 effectively changed its original exterior appearance beyond recognition.
Kaiser Westside Medical Center is a hospital in the Tanasbourne neighborhood in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in August 2013 with 126 hospital beds,the Kaiser Permanente facility is planned to later expand to 174 beds. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket Architects and Petersen Kolberg &Associates Architects/Planners. The $220 million hospital includes Kaiser's Sunset Medical Office that opened in 1987 on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area.
Emil Schacht was an architect in Portland,Oregon. Schacht's work was prolific from the 1890s until World War I and he produced commercial buildings including factories and warehouses as well as residential projects,hotels and theatres. He is known for his craftsman architecture style homes and was a founding member of the 1902 Portland Association of architects.
Otto Karl Kleemann,frequently alternatively spelled Otto Kleeman,was an American architect in Portland,Oregon. His work included the design for Portland's Hotel Arminius and St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church and Rectory.
Reid &Reid, also known as Reid Brothers, was an American architectural and engineering firm that was active from 1880 to 1932. Established in Indiana by Canadian immigrants,the firm moved to the West Coast and became was the most prominent firm in San Francisco,California,in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Hallock–McMillan Building,also known as the Hallock and McMillan Building,is the first and oldest commercial brick building in Portland,Oregon,located downtown at 237 SW Naito Parkway. The building was designed by Absalom Hallock and completed in 1857. It is adjacent to the Fechheimer &White Building. In 1975,it was listed as a "primary landmark" in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination of the Portland Skidmore/Old Town Historic District,the building's designation subsequently "translated" to "contributing property" under post-1970s NRHP terminology.
The Oregonian Building was a building in downtown Portland,Oregon,United States,which served as the headquarters of Portland's major newspaper,The Oregonian,from 1892 to 1948. It was the first steel-framed building constructed in the Western U.S.,and from its opening until 1911 it was the tallest building in Portland. In addition to the newspaper's offices and printing press,in 1922 the building became the home of Portland's first commercial radio station,KGW,which was owned by the Oregonian Publishing Company. A second radio station,KEX,was acquired by the paper in 1933,and joined KGW in new,shared studios in the Oregonian Building. A fire in 1943 forced the radio stations to relocate. The company sold the building in December 1947 as it prepared for a move to a larger building. In June 1948,the newspaper moved to a new building on Southwest Broadway,also called the Oregonian Building. The 1892 building with the landmark clock tower then stood vacant for about two years until it was demolished,in 1950.
Claussen and Claussen was an architecture firm based in Portland,Oregon,that designed several prominent buildings in the first half of the 20th century. Some of the buildings have been added to the National Register of Historic Places,including the Roosevelt Hotel,the Park Heathman Hotel,the Loyalty Building,Ira Powers Warehouse,and Portland Van and Storage.
Naito Parkway is a major thoroughfare of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was formerly known as Front Avenue and Front Street and was renamed in 1996 to honor Bill Naito. It runs between SW Barbur Boulevard and NW Front Avenue,and adjacent to Tom McCall Waterfront Park through Downtown Portland.
The K.A.J. and Cora Mackenzie House is a Richardsonian Romanesque revival style building in Northwest Portland,Oregon,situated on the corner of NW 20th Avenue and NW Hoyt Street,just blocks from its partner organization,the William Temple Thrift Store. Although the house is most well-known now for its association with the William Temple community,it was originally commissioned in 1891 by Kenneth A. J. Mackenzie,a medical professional in Oregon,and his wife,Cora Mackenzie,as their private residence. The Portland architecture firm of McCaw,Martin,and White was selected by the MacKenzies to design the house. The Mackenzies owned the house and resided in it until Kenneth A. J. Mackenzie's death in 1920,when it was sold. The house has had several owners since then,eventually being placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The house has three stories and is roughly 7,100 square feet. The Mackenzie house is a prominent example of the influence of the Richardsonian Romanesque Revival architectural style on the west coast.
