Morris Marks House

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Morris Marks House
Portland Historic Landmark [1]
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The Marks House in 2013.
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Location1501 SW Harrison Street
Portland, Oregon
Coordinates 45°30′49″N122°41′30″W / 45.513550°N 122.691551°W / 45.513550; -122.691551 Coordinates: 45°30′49″N122°41′30″W / 45.513550°N 122.691551°W / 45.513550; -122.691551
Area0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built1882
Architect Warren Heywood Williams
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No. 75001596 [2]
Added to NRHPDecember 30, 1975

The Morris Marks House is a house located in southwest Portland, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] It is located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood, just southwest of downtown Portland. Designed by Portland architect Warren Heywood Williams in an Italianate style, the house was built for Morris Marks, a Portland shoe merchant of Polish descent, in 1882. [4] It was originally located at S.W. 11th Avenue and Clay Street, but in the early 1900s was moved to 1501 S.W. Harrison Street, where it has remained ever since. [4]

Prior to owning this house, Marks owned another house in Portland that was also designed by Warren Williams, also in an Italianate style, but was somewhat smaller. [4] It was built in 1880. That house, once located at 1134 S.W. 12th Avenue in downtown Portland, but cut in half and moved to a very small lot at S.W. Broadway and Grant in 2017, [5] has been vacant and boarded-up for several years, and is not listed on the National Register. [4]

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References

  1. Portland Historic Landmarks Commission (July 2010), Historic Landmarks -- Portland, Oregon (XLS), retrieved November 7, 2013.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  3. "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. June 6, 2011. p. 36. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Njus, Elliot (October 11, 2016) [online date October 10]. "Plan in works for preservation: The 136-year-old building, now vacant in downtown Portland, would be relocated and repurposed as apartments or offices". The Oregonian . p. A1. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  5. Graves, Mark (September 30, 2017). "137-year-old Morris Marks House crawls through downtown Portland". OregonLive.com . Retrieved 2017-10-02.