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Smith & Watson Building (Portland, Oregon)


Photographer
Date
  • 1883
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 of building with cast ironwork architectural elements
Temporal
  • 1880-1889
MODS Note
  • Warren H. Williams might have been the architect of the Smith & Watson Building. The building was demolished in 1974 to make room for the Portland General Electric Company (PGE) office building.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Street Address
  • Southwest Main Street and Southwest 1st Avenue
Material
  • cast iron
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • pna_06471
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 Archtiecture (Portland: Binford & Mort, 1976), 132-133.
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
  • 04/28/2015
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (25 Apr 2024). Smith & Watson Building (Portland, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67m8735

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Smith & Watson Building (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 25 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67m8735

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Smith & Watson Building (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-25. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67m8735

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Ross, Marion Dean http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82202764
2 Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
3 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
4 ironwork (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015338
5 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
6 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
7 commercial buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005147
8 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
9 exterior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124515
10 stores (built works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005283
11 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
12 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
13 Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5742126/
14 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
15 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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