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Sherlock Building (Portland, Oregon)

Alternative Title
  • Forbes & Breeden Building (Portland, Oregon)
Photographer
Date
  • 1894
Description
  • National Register (Listed, 1981)
View
  • exterior
View Date
  • 1983-04-23
Temporal
  • 1890-1899
MODS Note
  • The architect of the Sherlock Building is not known. Isaac Hodgson, Jr., and F. Manson White, respectively, have been attributed without sourcing. The author of the National Register nomination provides this speculation: "The name of the "anonymous" architect of the Sherlock Building has for many years been an enigma to local architects and historians. Since none of the work of contemporary local architects resembles the Sherlock design, and none of the local publications or periodicals yet discovered names the Sherlock Building architect, nor is the Sherlock noted in the published or un- published lists of local architect's work, it seems fair to assume that the designer of the Sherlock Building was not from Portland. A likely candidate is architect Isaac Hodgson, Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska. Hodgson came to Portland in 1890 to work on the design of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The eight story Chamber of Commerce Building, completed in September, 1893, (razed 1933) occupied the half block on S. W. Stark Street between 3rd and 4th, adjoining the Sherlock Building. Promoter of the Chamber of Commerce Building was George B. Markle, Jr., President of the Northwest Loan & Trust Co., who developed the Forbes & Breeden, nee Sherlock Building. Hodgson's tenure in Port- land coincided with construction of the C. of C. Building and Markle's departure from Portland in 1894 after his financial ruin in the 1893 Panic."
Subject
Work Type
Location
Street Address
  • 309 Southwest 3rd Avenue
GPS Latitude
  • 45.520857
GPS Longitude
  • -122.674666
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • pna_07365
Item Locator
  • mdr08364
Source
  • Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Citation
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
  • 04/29/2015
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
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MLA

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Chicago

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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 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
5 exterior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124515
6 office buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300007043
7 mercantile buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005230
8 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
9 commercial buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005147
10 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
11 Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5742126/
12 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
13 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
14 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
15 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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