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The Wong Laundry Building is an historic building in Portland, Oregon's Old Town Chinatown neighborhood, United States. The two-story structure was completed in 1908, and sold in 2016. It was named one of Oregon's Most Endangered Places. [1]

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References

  1. "Oregon's 12 most endangered places for 2018". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 2018-10-13.

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