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The Standard Insurance Center, originally the Georgia-Pacific Building, is a 27-story office building in Portland, Oregon. Completed in 1970, it is part of the headquarters of The Standard, the brand name under which Standard Insurance Company and other subsidiaries of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. do business.
Richmond is named after Richmond Kelly, son of an early immigrant from Kentucky who held one of the donation land claims in the area, Rev. Clinton Kelly. [ 2 ] The Richmond neighborhood is home to Richmond Elementary School, the first of three which comprise the Japanese Magnet Program of Portland Public Schools .
Downtown Portland in 1973 Downtown Portland in 2007. By the early 1970s, parts of Portland's central city had been in decay for some time. [4] New suburban shopping malls in the neighboring cities of Beaverton, Tigard, and Gresham competed with downtown for people and money. Unlike many downtown revitalization efforts around the United States ...
The Portland Charter was the subject of much debate circa 1911–1912. Rival charters were drafted by four different groups, including the "official charter committee," appointed by the mayor; the "people's charter committee," constituted under the auspices of the East Side Business Men's Club; another citizen's committee which drafted the Short Charter; and the "people's committee," led by W ...
Funding for the city hall came from several sources. In 1889, the Oregon Legislative Assembly approved a sale of $175,000 worth of bonds by the City of Portland to finance the construction of a new city hall. [6] The building ultimately cost $575,000. [3] When built, the surrounding area was composed of dirt roads and private residences. [15]
Much of the U. S. city of Portland, Oregon is built to a grid plan oriented north/south and east/west. However, the streets in the central downtown area are aligned to magnetic north—presumably at the time the area was platted—and so is oriented about 19.25° eastward. [1]
This 1916 Colonial Revival house is a prime example of the work of Ellis F. Lawrence (1879–1946), one of Portland's and Oregon's most influential architects. Sited on one of the largest lots in the Irvington neighborhood, it is perhaps Lawrence's grandest residential design.
Southeast Portland Bike/Walk Map; Belmont Library; 2000 and 2010 Census Profile; Sunnyside Piazza Facebook Page; Historic Sunnyside Plat; 33rd and Belmont in 1915; Sunnyside Neighborhood, Part two: Reaching for Community; Sunnyside Street Tree Inventory Report; Origins of Sunnyside School, from Oregon Journal 1958: Oregon Journal Sunnyside ...