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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 ...
Pittock Block. View of the Washington Street face. / 45.521513°N 122.680711°W / 45.521513; -122.680711. 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 .
85000368 [1] Added to NRHP. February 28, 1985. 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. It was substantially modified in 1928 to ...
Henry Pittock. Henry Lewis Pittock (March 1, 1835 (some sources cite 1836) – January 28, 1919) was an English -born American pioneer, publisher, newspaper editor, and wood and paper magnate. He was active in Republican politics and Portland, Oregon civic affairs, and was a Freemason and an avid outdoorsman. He is frequently referred to as the ...
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.
Henry L. Pittock had the house built for his son and daughter–in–law Frederick and Bertha Leadbetter Pittock when they married in 1902. The property is 3 acres (1.2 ha) with 484.2 feet (147.6 m) of shoreline on La Camas Lake.Although it was built as a farmhouse the Queen Anne style building reflects the wealth and stature of the residents.
Washington Park (Portland, Oregon) / 45.51583°N 122.70750°W / 45.51583; -122.70750. Washington Park is a public urban park in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. It includes a zoo, forestry museum, arboretum, rose garden, Japanese garden, amphitheatre, memorials, archery range, tennis courts, soccer field, picnic areas, playgrounds ...
Body of Evidence was filmed in Portland, Oregon, with the Pittock Mansion serving as a primary location. [5] The cemetery scene featured in the beginning of the film was shot on location at Lone Fir Cemetery. [6] Julianne Moore said her nude scene in this movie was "just awful": "I was too young to know better. It was the first time I'd been ...