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Cooks' Block (Portland, Oregon)

Alternative Title
  • Baltes, F. W., & Company, Printers & Bookbinders (Portland, Oregon)
Creator Display
  • Willamette Iron Works (builder/contractor)
  • Warren Haywood Williams (architect, 1844-1888)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • 1884
Description
  • This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
View
  • exterior: view in 1959
View Date
  • 1959-05-07
Temporal
  • 1880-1889
MODS Note
  • The Cooks' Block was built for James W. Cook and V. Cook at the southeast corner of 2nd Avenue and Oak Street. The building was demolished in 1965.
Subject
Work Type
Style / Period
Location
Street Address
  • 300 Southwest 2nd Avenue
GPS Latitude
  • 45.520511
GPS Longitude
  • -122.673061
Material
  • cast iron
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • pna_07074
Item Locator
  • mdr08057
Source
  • Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Citation
  • Hawkins, William John, III. The Grand Era of Cast-Iron Architecture (Portland: Binford & Mort, 1976) , p. 143.
Institution
Conversion
  • This image is derived from a master TIFF (3000 x 5000 pixel, 16 bit) created by scanning a 35m slide which remains as the archival artifact. Digital editing may have included cropping, color correction, and removal of dust, scratch, or other artifacts reproduced in the scanning process.
Submission Date
  • 04/20/2015
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (25 Apr 2024). Cooks' Block (Portland, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67gg626

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Cooks' Block (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 25 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67gg626

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Cooks' Block (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-25. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67gg626

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67gg626 | title= Cooks' Block (Portland, Oregon) |author= |accessdate= 2024-04-25 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Willamette Iron and Steel Works http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78021819
2 Williams, Warren Heywood http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500071604
3 Ross, Marion Dean http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82202764
4 Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
5 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
6 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
7 commercial buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005147
8 stores (built works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005283
9 exterior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124515
10 mercantile buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005230
11 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
12 ironwork (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015338
13 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
14 Italianate (architectural style) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300018207
15 Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5742126/
16 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
17 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
18 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
19 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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