Swetland Building | |
 The building's exterior in 2012 | |
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| Location | 500 SW 5th Avenue Portland, Oregon |
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| Coordinates | 45°31′12″N122°40′36″W / 45.519872°N 122.676725°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1907 |
| Architect | Emil Schacht |
| Architectural style | Early Commercial |
| MPS | Downtown Portland, Oregon MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 07000367 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 24, 2007 |
The Swetland Building is a building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Camera World was headquartered in the building from 1977 until the late-1990s, [3] with its retail store occupying the ground floor at SW 5th and Washington until 1995, when it moved to the 400 SW Sixth Avenue building. The company's administrative offices and mail-order operations remained on other floors until at least 1997.[ citation needed ]
Camera World was a retailer of photographic equipment and photofinishing services based in Portland, Oregon, United States, and founded in 1977. It was an independent company until 2002, and then from 2002 to 2016 it was a brand of Ritz Camera & Image or C&A Marketing. In the mid-1990s, it was one of the largest mail-order retailers of photographic and audio equipment in the nation. The company's revenues totalled $80 million in 1998, of which $16 million were from online sales. Revenues grew to $115.7 million in 1999, and the company relocated its administrative offices and inventory to a new facility in Beaverton, Oregon, the following year. The company's only brick-and-mortar store, in downtown Portland, as well as its Internet business were sold in 2002 to Ritz Camera, which continued to operate them under the Camera World name. Ritz, in turn, was acquired by C&A Marketing in 2012, but retained the Camera World name as a Ritz brand, for both the store and the Internet business, until closure of the store. The store closed on January 21, 2016.
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