Portland Hotel

Portland Hotel
The hotel about 1900. The tall chimneys on the roof were shortened/removed in the 1910s, as can be seen in the 1919 image below.
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General information
TypeHotel
Town or cityPortland, Oregon
CountryUnited States
Coordinates45°31′08″N 122°40′45″W / 45.518872°N 122.6793°W / 45.518872; -122.6793
Construction started1882
Opened1890
Demolished1951
Cost$1,000,000
Height
ArchitecturalQueen Anne, Châteauesque
Technical details
Floor count8
Design and construction
Architect(s)William M. Whidden
Architecture firmWhidden & Lewis
Other information
Number of rooms326

The Portland Hotel (or Hotel Portland) was a late-19th-century hotel in Portland, Oregon, United States, that once occupied the city block on which Pioneer Courthouse Square now stands.[1] It closed in 1951 after 61 years of operation.[2]

  1. ^ Flores, Trudy; Sarah Griffith (2002). "Portland Hotel, 1890". Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  2. ^ Turner, Wallace (August 15, 1951). "Sadness Marks Exodus From Old Portland Hotel: Historical Hostelry Ends 61 Years". The Oregonian, p. 1.