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This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Northeast Portland, Oregon, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them. The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States.[1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide,[2]Oregon is home to over 2,000,[3] and over one-fourth of those are found partially or wholly in Portland. While these sites are widely spread across all six of Portland's quadrants, heavy concentrations are found in the Downtown and Southwest Hills neighborhoods of the Southwest quadrant, and the Northwest District neighborhood of the Northwest quadrant.
Only historic places within the municipal boundaries of Portland are shown in this list and its four companion lists for the other quadrants. Some sites beyond city limits will appear in other lists showing "Portland" as a general locality, but are excluded here. Although Portland's legal boundaries extend into Clackamas and Washington counties, all of the city's National Register sites lie within Multnomah County.
Built in 1912, this commercial/apartment building typifies the mixed-use development that occurred along Portland's eastside streetcar lines during the early 20th century. Its origins are strongly echoed in the 21st-century renaissance of mixed-use construction and streetcars in Portland, with a new-generation streetcar line immediately opposite the west elevation.[8]
This 1898 house is a locally-important example of the application of the Queen Anne style to simple housing for the European immigrant and working class families that flowed into the Eliot neighborhood during the 1880s to early 1900s. The German American Armbruster family operated a pretzel baking business from the back yard for nearly 30 years.[9]
Built in 1894, this elaborate Queen Anne house is one of very few intact examples of its type remaining from the early years of development in the King neighborhood. It exhibits more defining Queen Anne characteristics than other nearby houses of the same period, including a tower and the large quantity of jigsawed ornamentation.[10]
This 1927 house is an outstanding example of the Tudor Revival style in both its exterior and interior, and is one of only two houses in Portland by architectKirtland Cutter. Thomas J. Autzen (1888–1958) was a prominent businessman in the wood products industry, and a pioneer in the manufacture and marketing of plywood.[11][12]
Businessman Frank C. Barnes (1854–1931), prominent in Portland's grocery and fish processing industries, had this 1914 mansion built as part of a grouping of houses for himself and his wife and children. The house clearly demonstrates the architectural eclecticism of the era, with major elements in the Jacobethan, Colonial Revival, and Neoclassical styles.[13]
This brick building is the last remnant of the complex of maintenance facilities that supported several major streetcar lines in northeast Portland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[a] The complex was opened in 1901 and Bay E was built in 1911, continuing in operation until 1950. It is one of only two structures remaining in Portland from that era's streetcar network.[15]
This c. 1910 house is most noted for its association with William E. Boyd (1880–1965), the co-owner and manager of the Benson Hotel for 36 years, during which time it flourished as one of Portland's premier hotels. Boyd lived in the house for 28 years from 1922 to 1950. It has a fine design in the Tudor and Jacobethan styles by Joseph Jacobberger.[16]
The finest of only three poured-concrete houses in Portland, this 1910 residence was built at the height of the short-lived national trend of experimentation with this building method. Although the method largely died out soon after and especially never gained popularity in Portland, this house was at the cutting edge in its time.[17]
Constructed in 1913, this is one of the oldest apartment buildings in the Irvington neighborhood, and the best preserved from its era. Through its Craftsman styling, builder Frederic E. Bowman gave attention to blending the building into the neighborhood of pre-existing single-family homes.[18]
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. It stands out for fine craftsmanship and materials.[19][20]
This house is significant for its highly unusual combination of Queen Anne styling with cast concrete block construction. Built in 1908–1909, it is one of the finest remaining Queen Anne houses in the Albina District, and one of only a few cast concrete houses in that area.[21]
This model house was built in 1922–1923 to showcase the product line of the Standard Brick & Tile Company, based in Portland. It was also a demonstration project for the brick hollow-wall method of construction, newly introduced in the Portland market to reduce cost and improve affordability of brick houses.[22]
Opened in 1926 as a centerpiece of Portland's transportation system, the Burnside Bridge was embroiled in a public corruption scandal during its development. Part of a three-bridge package funded by a public bond issue, it was one of the final works in bridge engineer Gustav Lindenthal's impressive career.[b] It is one of the country's heaviest bascule bridges, and the earliest to use a concrete deck on the lift span.[23]
Beatrice Morrow and E.D. Cannady House,
2516 NE 26th Avenue,
Portland, MP100009989,
LISTED, 2/16/2024
George Earle Chamberlain (1854–1928) worked in public service for over 40 years, including as Oregon's 11th state Governor (1903–1909) and as U.S. Senator (1909–1921). He acquired this Colonial Revival house in 1904 and lived there nearly until his death, associating it with the later, most prominent portion of his career.[c] He remodeled the house extensively and his imprint on the house has been preserved.[24]
This 1928 Tudor Revival building is a fine example of the garden apartments popular in Portland in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It was designed by prominent architect Carl L. Linde under commission to George Nease, an influential timber businessman. It contains light fixtures designed by Fred Baker, a master lighting designer in Portland in that period.[25]
Architect John V. Bennes designed this richly-appointed 1916 Colonial Revival house for engineer and businessman John D. Coleman. It later became the home of Coleman's son-in-law Leslie M. Scott (1878–1968). During his 49-year residency, Scott was vice president of The Oregonian, a scholar of Pacific Northwest history, and pursued a career in public service and politics, highlighted by two terms as Oregon State Treasurer.[26]
This 1910 house is an excellent example of the work of prominent architect Joseph Jacobberger at the height of the Arts and Crafts style in Portland residential architecture. During his prolific career Jacobberger contributed greatly to the spread of that style in Portland.[27]
Purpose-built in 1956, this is one of the relatively few Black-owned businesses to survive the urban renewal, disinvestment, and gentrification that decimated the Black business district in lower Albina. It represents the history of African American entrepreneurship in the Albina area and the importance of the hair care industry in African American culture.[28] As of 2021, it is the oldest continuously operated Black-owned business in Oregon.[28][29]
Frank S. Doernbecher (1861–1921) was a prominent furniture manufacturer and philanthropist, notably as the benefactor of Doernbecher Children's Hospital. His c. 1903 house is an outstanding example of the Tudor Revival style in the upscale neighborhood of Irvington. Much of the interior paneling and woodwork was hand-carved at Doernbecher's own factory.[30]
This excellent 1910 example of the American Craftsman style was designed by prominent Portland architect Ellis F. Lawrence by closely adapting plans published by Gustav Stickley.[d] Stickley was the leading national exponent of Craftsman architecture, and no other work by Lawrence so precisely captures Stickley's aesthetic.[31]
Built in 1899 by German American carpenter Henry C. Keck, this house illustrates the settlement of Albina by ethnic Europeans. As the presence of African Americans in Albina increased, it was purchased by Mount Olivet Baptist Church in 1929 to be its parsonage. In that role, the house was home to locally prominent civil rights leaders Rev. Jonathan L. Caston and Rev. J. James Clow.[33]
Built starting in 1910, this is an exceptional case of a streetcar suburbplanned, developed, and marketed by a single entity. Its winding streets combined with radial thoroughfares make an unusually full expression of the ideals of the City Beautiful movement. The c. 1700 houses in the district illustrate the popular trends in domestic architecture through the 1940s. Aimed at the middle and upper class market for single-family homes, Laurelhurst's exclusionary rules were accentuated by zoning codes and racially restrictive deed covenants.[35]
This 1925 building is one of the last remnants of two important phases in Portland's economic history: the city's once-prominent furnituremanufacturing and distribution industry, and worker housing for the war industries of the World War II era.[36]
This 1905 house is a well-preserved example of the early development of the Sullivan's Gulch neighborhood. The neighborhood initially unfolded as a district of single-family homes affordable for the expanding middle class. Later commercial and multi-family construction decreased the dominance of houses such as this.[37]
Built between 1934 and 1939, this WPA-funded roadway and park emulate many of the technical and aesthetic features of the Columbia River Highway, especially in their extensive stonemasonry. They also illustrate the increasing prevalence of automotiverecreation in this period. The 1933 aircraft beacon at the summit, one of only a few remaining in the U.S., recalls the era of air navigation by dead reckoning.[38]
This house is the best and most unaltered remaining example of a modest, cottage-scale Queen Anne home in the Irvington neighborhood, exhibiting elegant Eastlake details on the interior. It was built in 1893 by the Portland Cottage Building Association, a short-lived company that developed several cottage-type houses in the area.[39]
Built in 1926–1927, this house is an exceptional example of the Tudor Revival style. It exhibits classic Tudor hallmarks, such as decorative half-timbering, as well as features less commonly associated with the style, such as rolled eaves to simulate a thatched roof.[40]
Otto Rutherford (1911–2000) and Verdell Burdine Rutherford (1913–2001) were leaders in the civil rights movement in Oregon, importantly as president (Otto, 1952 to 1954) and secretary (Verdell, late 1940s to 1962) of the NAACP Portland branch. Their house became a center of meeting, organization, planning, and publishing in support of the African American community's struggle for equal rights. A notable success came with passage of the 1953 Oregon Public Accommodations Act, attributable in large measure to the Rutherfords' work.[41]
In this apartment building, architect Roscoe Hemenway employed the Colonial Revival style to draw out an air of respectability and tradition, in an effort to make apartment living more appealing to a middle-class clientele. Built in 1944 for developer Douglas W. Lowell, the complex was aimed at single women working in war industries. Lowell went on to develop over 3,000 housing units in Portland through his career.[43]
This 1913 Colonial Revival house was the Portland home of fishing and canning businessman Francis A. Seufert (1853–1929) from 1914 to his death. Seufert was an innovative leader in the upper Columbia Riversalmon industry at The Dalles. He pioneered use of the fish wheel to harvest fish, as well as the shipment of fresh, iced salmon to eastern markets.[44]
For nearly 30 years, sisters May (1861–1928) and Ann (1868–1934) Shogren were the premier dressmakers and arbiters of women's fashion to the wealthy elite in Portland. They lived in this c. 1906Craftsman house, originally built for their brother Fred, from 1912, through retirement in 1918, and until their deaths.[45]
This house is a well-preserved and locally distinct example of the English Cottage style. Built in 1924, it was designed during a period when the style was very popular for new homes in Northeast Portland.[e] The house exhibits many of the defining characteristics of the English Cottage style, most visibly including rolled eaves to imitate a thatched roof.[47]
This building represents an excellent example of architect Ewald T. Pape's steps toward making apartment living more appealing to the middle class. Built in 1929, the building incorporates features such as two-story townhouse-type units, an L shape footprint to create greenspace, individual front and back entrances to each unit with individual addresses, and an overall emphasis on interior function over exterior design.[48][49]
Built in 1922, this is the only well-preserved Craftsmanbungalow in the Walnut Park district of Portland that exhibits two classic features of the bungalow type: a full-width porch and a low, continuous, gable roof.[50]
Built in 1928, this Tudor Revivalapartment building is an outstanding example of Portland architect Roscoe D. Hemenway's work in period revival styles during the 1920s through the 1950s. It is one of very few multi-unit residences he produced.[f][51]
Built in 1894 in the Queen Anne style, this house was the home of Lewis Van Vleet (1826–1910), the United States Deputy Surveyor for the Pacific Northwest for 40 years. It was later the home of Rozelle Jackson Yee (1913–2000), a leader in the African American community active in promoting neighborhood involvement in the redevelopment projects that vastly altered the Albina area.[g][52][53]
^The Ankeny Car Barns occupied several lots around the intersection of Burnside Street and 28th Avenue. Bay E was part of the western portion of the complex. Seven other barn complexes were located in different parts of Portland.
^The three bridges in the bond-funded package were the Burnside Bridge, Ross Island Bridge, and Sellwood Bridge (which has since been demolished and replaced). Lindenthal was the supervising engineer for the construction of all three bridges. He was responsible for the design of the Ross Island and Sellwood bridges, but for the Burnside Bridge he adapted a design by Ira G. Hedrick and Robert E. Kremers. Hedrick and Kremers were removed from the project due to the corruption scandal.
^The Chamberlain House was originally built in 1893 for Frank M. Warren Sr. (1848–1912), a well-known businessman in the salmon industry who later died aboard the Titanic.
^Specifically, Lawrence based the Gilliland House on "A Bungalow of Irregular Form and Unusually Interesting Construction", published by Stickley in Craftsman Homes (1909).
^Between 1920 and 1935, over fifty homes were built in the English Cottage style in Northeast Portland. See also Edward H. and Bertha R. Keller House.
^The source document states that the Turner Fourplex is the only one of Roscoe Hemenway's multi-unit residential buildings to survive down to 1991. This apparently is incorrect. See for example the Senate Court Apartments.[43]
^Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon Historic Sites Database, retrieved August 6, 2015. Note that a simple count of National Register records in this database returns a slightly higher total than actual listings, due to duplicate records. A close reading of detailed query results is necessary to arrive at the precise count.
^ abNumbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
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