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The Joseph R. Bowles House is a house located in southwest Portland, Oregon, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Bowles house is a 4,959 sq. ft. two-story reinforced concrete building with Spanish tile roof and Italian marble columns. The house is an example of 1920s craftsmanship wherein expense was no barrier.
Oregon Caves is a solutional cave, with passages totaling about 15,000 feet (4,600 m), formed in marble. The parent rock was originally limestone that metamorphosed to marble during the geologic processes that created the Klamath Mountains, including the Siskiyous. Although the limestone formed about 190 million years ago, the cave itself is no ...
The Markle–Pittock House is a historic house located in southwest Portland, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]It was built as a Queen Anne style house during 1888-89 and was prominent as the largest house in Portland.
The Charles Piggott House, also known as Piggott's Castle or Gleall Castle, [3] is a house located in southwest Portland, Oregon, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4] The house is designed as a Romanesque Revival -style castle .
Vista House is a museum at Crown Point in Multnomah County, Oregon, that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway. The site, situated on a rocky promontory, is 733 feet (223 m) above the Columbia River on the south side of the Columbia River Gorge .
Entrance to the building. What is now known as the Crystal Ballroom was constructed in 1913–1914 and opened in early 1914, as Ringler's Cotillion Hall. [3]Originally owned by Montrose Ringler, the ballroom fell victim to heavy persecution of jazz and dance and Ringler lost the ballroom in the early 1920s.
The David Cole House is a house located in Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] The house includes several stained glass windows made by Portland's Povey Brothers Studio. [4] It is in the Kenton neighborhood of North Portland, and operates as an events venues called the Victorian Belle. [5]
The sculpture in 2007. The Quest was designed by Count Alexander von Svoboda, an Austria-born, Toronto-based sculptor. [3] It was commissioned by Georgia-Pacific in 1967 and installed in front of the Standard Insurance Center (formerly known as the Georgia-Pacific Building) [4] at Southwest 5th Avenue and Southwest Taylor Street in downtown Portland in 1970.