Old Town/Chinatown News - Page 71

urbanlife · #**1401** Posted **May 12, 2015, 8:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by PDX City-State

That part of town is really going to take off. The Marriott Signature where Huber's is, the market rate apartments near UO and OCOM, the new Wyndham time share hotel Naito and Pine, Pine Street Market and a lot more.

So great to see.

Is that what they are gonna name that hotel? I figured it would be Pioneer Hotel or something like that seeing it is the Pioneer Building.

PDXDENSITY · #**1402** Posted **May 12, 2015, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Thanks for sharing this. I think it still catches interest. And the height seems to be the same? I like it, still, if it isn't hacked anymore. It would add an interesting profile and hopefully encourage similar skinny/high development!

downtownpdx · #**1403** Posted **May 12, 2015, 11:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbanlife

Is that what they are gonna name that hotel? I figured it would be Pioneer Hotel or something like that seeing it is the Pioneer Building.

I thought the Marriott Signature was the new construction one on 3rd and Taylor?

maccoinnich · #**1404** Posted **May 12, 2015, 11:33 PM**

The hotel at 3rd & Taylor will be an AC by Marriott. I have not read anything to suggest that the Oregon Pioneer Building will be operated as a Marriott, though PDX City-State may know something I don't.

maccoinnich · #**1405** Posted **May 14, 2015, 3:58 AM**

Request for Response [PDF] for the Mason Ehrman building annex / Zellerbach Paper Company renovations.

58rhodes · #**1406** Posted **May 14, 2015, 2:01 PM**

^cool.

maccoinnich · #**1407** Posted **May 14, 2015, 11:37 PM**

...and here's the answer to my question:

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Throwback Thursday: Hallock & McMillen Building, city's oldest commercial structure, to be restored

The Hallock & McMillen Building along Southwest Naito Parkway doesn't really look like much today. It's drab and nothing about it says "historic landmark."

But that bland exterior is hiding a secret. Originally designed by pioneer architect Absalom Hallock and built 1857, it is the oldest surviving commercial brick building in Portland, dating back to territorial days. Oregon didn't become a state until 1859.

It's also the city's oldest example of cast-iron architecture, which was popular in downtown Portland's early days -- even though its cast-iron framing was removed sometime in the 1940s in an effort to "modernize" it.

...continues at the Oregonian.

Abide · #**1408** Posted **May 15, 2015, 5:39 AM**

Finally! Been waiting for this to move forward forever!

downtownpdx · #**1409** Posted **May 15, 2015, 5:02 PM**

Love this kind of historical redevelopment. Naito's finally getting some love, with this, the Ankrom-Moison project, the future time-share project, and James Beard Market. Naito needs much more of a redesign if it's ever to become a vibrant riverfront boulevard, but these developments are helping.

PDXDENSITY · #**1410** Posted **May 15, 2015, 6:47 PM**

Sweet. I had heard about this building. I'm glad it'll be put to use. See, this is reasonable protectionism.

Abide · #**1411** Posted **May 15, 2015, 7:28 PM**

Wonder if they're actually going to recreate those 1890's era signs on the side, or if that is just design fluff for the rendering.

2oh1 · #**1412** Posted **May 15, 2015, 10:34 PM**

It's going to be one heck of a drastic rehab, and hooray for that.

[image source: from the O]

PDXDENSITY · #**1413** Posted **May 16, 2015, 3:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by 2oh1

It's going to be one heck of a drastic rehab, and hooray for that.

[image source: from the O]

I dunno, in SF they'd have preserved the concrete facade as historic.

58rhodes · #**1414** Posted **May 16, 2015, 4:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by PDXDENSITY

I dunno, in SF they'd have preserved the concrete facade as historic.

looks like someone went 1960 on that building.

Abide · #**1415** Posted **May 16, 2015, 8:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by PDXDENSITY

I dunno, in SF they'd have preserved the concrete facade as historic.

Well, that facade is from the 40's, so I guess it'd qualify as historic. But it sure is butt-ugly. I'm really looking forward to this. I'd even be happy to see a few cast iron buildings that never should have been demolished be reborn on a few of those parking lots.

soleri · #**1416** Posted **May 17, 2015, 12:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by Abide

Well, that facade is from the 40's, so I guess it'd qualify as historic. But it sure is butt-ugly. I'm really looking forward to this. I'd even be happy to see a few cast iron buildings that never should have been demolished be reborn on a few of those parking lots.

I think (translation: obsess) a lot about what might have been if the exuberant America of the post-war era had been a bit more sensitive to good architecture and saved more of its antique treasures. Usually the The Portland Hotel is at the top of my list. It was such a grand hulk that it could have given Portland a European flavor, recalling the fairy-tale buildings of Bruges or Munich. Next would be the old Oregonian building, more Florentine in its visual language. After that, the cast-iron buildings, which if preserved in their totality would have made Portland the most necessary tourist destination in North America.

We should be thankful, of course, for what we have. And in this case, the resurrection of a small treasure.

Abide · #**1417** Posted **May 17, 2015, 4:48 AM**

It really would be awesome if the old Oregonian building were still around. Add to that, the Worchester building and the Kamm Block.

https://vintageportland.files.wordpr...lding-1909.jpg
https://vintageportland.files.wordpr...nies-10027.jpg

Encolpius · #**1418** Posted **May 17, 2015, 8:47 AM**

What about Portland High School?

https://vintageportland.wordpress.co...h-school-1904/

To think we once had such a fine example of the late Victorian renaissance-gothic!

2oh1 · #**1419** Posted **May 17, 2015, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Encolpius

What about Portland High School?

https://vintageportland.wordpress.co...h-school-1904/

To think we once had such a fine example of the late Victorian renaissance-gothic!

Whoa, and wow! Neat find!

Vintage Portland is such a great site!

urbanlife · #**1420** Posted **May 18, 2015, 6:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Abide

It really would be awesome if the old Oregonian building were still around. Add to that, the Worchester building and the Kamm Block.

https://vintageportland.files.wordpr...lding-1909.jpg
https://vintageportland.files.wordpr...nies-10027.jpg

That would be an amazing building to still have in downtown, shame it was torn down.