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Wells Fargo Building
309 SW 6th Avenue
Portland OR United States
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| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1905 | | Finished | 1907 | | Floor Count | 12 | | Basement Floors | 1 | | Floor Area | 20,903 m² |
|  | | Building Uses | | - office | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | Architectural Style | | - neo-classical | | Materials | | - glass | | - stone | | - stucco | | - brick | | - concrete |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Roof | | 185 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
Architect: Benjamin Wistar Morris III
• Colonel Dudley Evans, the president of Wells Fargo Bank, influenced the first Portland skyscraper construction.
• Known as the Porter Building from 1922-1946 after Andrew Porter, a Portland businessman and director of the U.S. National Bank, purchased the building.
• It is written in eastern top section facade the word "Wells", as the northern section stays "Fargo".
• It has been placed in the US National Register of Historic Places since 1986.
• Upon its completion, the Wells Fargo Building was the tallest building in Portland.
• The project's investors originally planned at the site between Fifth Avenue and Alder Street.
• U.S. Bancorp sold building in 1986 and bought it again in 1993.
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