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The Portland Skidmore/Old Town Historic District is an historic district in Portland, Oregon's Old Town Chinatown neighborhood, in the United States. The approximately 20-block area, center around Burnside Street and named after the Skidmore Fountain, is known for exhibiting Italianate architecture, though High Victorian Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, and ...
Portland in 1853. The site of the future city of Portland, Oregon, was known to American, Canadian, and British traders, trappers and settlers of the 1830s and early 1840s as "The Clearing," [5] a small stopping place along the west bank of the Willamette River used by travelers en route between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver.
Old Town Chinatown. / 45.52528°N 122.67246°W / 45.52528; -122.67246. Old Town Chinatown is the official Chinatown of the northwest section of Portland, Oregon. The Willamette River forms its eastern boundary, separating it from the Lloyd District and the Kerns and Buckman neighborhoods. It includes the Portland Skidmore/Old Town ...
The Old Portland Underground, better known locally as the Shanghai tunnels, is a group of passages in Portland, Oregon, United States, mainly underneath the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood and connecting to the main business section. The tunnels connected the basements of many hotels and taverns to the waterfront of the Willamette River.
72001086. Added to NRHP. March 29, 1972. The Old Church, originally known as Calvary Presbyterian Church, is a Carpenter Gothic church located in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Built in 1882, it was designed by Portland architect Warren Heywood Williams.
The Pittock Mansion is a French Renaissance -style château in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon, United States. It was built in 1914 as a private home for London -born Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock and his wife, Georgiana Burton Pittock. It is a 46-room estate built of Tenino sandstone situated on 46 acres (19 ha) that is now owned by the ...
History. The fountain in 2015. It was dedicated September 22, 1888, in memory of Stephen G. Skidmore, a wealthy Portland druggist who died in 1883, [3] and partly financed by his will. It was designed by sculptor Olin Levi Warner for $18,000, all of which was donated. [4] It is styled after fountains Skidmore viewed at Versailles on his visit ...
The original Morrison Bridge (or Morrison Street Bridge) was a wooden truss swing-span bridge that opened to the public on April 9, 1887 [ 5][ 6] (with a formal opening three days later), [ 7] as the first Willamette River bridge in Portland and the longest bridge west of the Mississippi River. It was named for the street it carried, which had ...