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Downtown Portland is the central business district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is on the west bank of the Willamette River in the northeastern corner of the southwest section of the city and where most of the city's high-rise buildings are found. The downtown neighborhood extends west from the Willamette to Interstate 405 and south ...
Provisional Government of Oregon district boundaries drawn in 1843, showing eventual U.S. border and states. The history of the city of Portland, Oregon, began in 1843 when business partners William Overton and Asa Lovejoy filed to claim land on the west bank of the Willamette River in Oregon Country. In 1845 the name of Portland was chosen for ...
Pioneer Courthouse Square, also known as Portland's living room, [1][2][3][4] is a public space occupying a full 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2) city block in the center of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1984, the square is bounded by Southwest Morrison Street on the north, Southwest 6th Avenue on the east, Southwest Yamhill ...
Added to NRHP. October 9, 1986. The United States National Bank Building in downtown Portland, Oregon was designed by A. E. Doyle in a Roman classical style, [3] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [5] The four-story building's first section, facing Sixth Avenue, was completed and opened in 1917.
1964 – Christmas flood of 1964. 1965 – Pittock Mansion (house museum) opens. 1967 – Portland Japanese Garden opens. 1968 – KJIB and KBOO radio begin broadcasting. 1969 – Tri-Met (Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon) established, replacing Rose City Transit. 1970 – People's Food Co-op founded.
Architect. Doyle & Patterson. Architectural style. Chicago school. NRHP reference No. 87001507 [1] Added to NRHP. September 8, 1987 [3] The Pittock Block is a historic building in downtown Portland, Oregon, occupying a city block between SW 9th and 10th Avenues, SW Stark and Washington Streets, and west of O'Bryant Square.
Portland Yamhill Historic District. / 45.516985°N 122.673972°W / 45.516985; -122.673972. The Portland Yamhill Historic District, located in downtown Portland, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] From 1914 to 1934, the area included part of the Carroll Public Market . The area covered, between the ...
The Multnomah County Courthouse is a historic building that served as the courthouse for Multnomah County, Oregon from 1911 to 2020. It is located in downtown, Portland, Oregon, the county seat, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Due to concerns over the structural deficiency of the then-century-old building, which was ...