Three Portland Buildings Added to the National Register of Historic Places
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Kirsten Nicolaisen, GoLocalPDX Digital Producer
The Honeyman House, Portland
Oregon Parks and Recreation released information about three Portland buildings that are among the lastest entries in the
National Register of Historic Places.
The Heathman Hotel, the Hanthorn Apartments and the Honeyman House all recieved nominations for listings in the register by Oregon's State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation in June. The buildings are just three of 600 historic properties in Portland that are listed in the National Register, a list maintained by the National Park Service under the authority of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Both the Heathman Hotel and the Hanthorn Apartments were modernized and rennovated and now serve as affordable housing.
More information about the National Register and recent Oregon lists can be found online.
See slides below to learn more about the historic sites.
Related Slideshow: Historic Places in Portland
These three Portland places are among the latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places. Learn about them here.
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The Heathman Hotel
The Heathman Hotel was constructed in 1926 in downtown Portland for hotelier George Heathman. The eleven-story hotel is located at the north end of the South Park Blocks and was joined by the New Heathman Hotel in 1927.
The hotel was designed by Portland architecture firm Claussen and Claussen and is clad in tapestry brick, finished in terra cotta trim. The two Heathman Hotels were among 184 new buildings, 38 of which were hotels, constructed in downtown Portland between 1915 and 1931. Today less than half of the 184 buildings remain.
The hotel was closed in the 1980's for building code violations and was then sold and modernized as affordable housing.
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The Hanthorn Apartments
The Hanthorn Apartments were constructed in 1910 in downtown Portland. The six-story building represents one of a collection of 'modern' apartment and office buildings that redefined downtown Portland in the construction boom following Portland's 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition.
The Hanthorn Apartments were also closed for building code violations in the 1980s and were then sold and modernized as affordable housing.
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The Honeyman House
The Honeyman House was designed by Portland architect David C. Lewis and constructed on Northwest Cornell Road, west of downtown Portland, in 1911. Walter Honeyman was a member of the second generation of the Honeyman family of Honeyman Hardware Company.
Architect David C. Lewis studied architecture in New York and Paris and is best known for his foreign exhibits building for Portland's 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and the Oregon State building for Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. He was admired in architectural circles for his 1907 Board of Trade Building in Portland. The Honeyman residence was published in Pacific Coast Architect in 1913.
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