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Paul Bunyan Statue (Portland, Oregon)

Creator Display
  • Victor R. Nelson (designer)
  • Kenton Machine Works (builder/contractor)
Creator
Date
  • 1959
Description
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2009 )
  • National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
View Date
  • National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
Temporal
  • 1950-1959
MODS Note
  • This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
  • The Paul Bunyan statue was erected in 1959 by the Kenton neighborhood, Portland, as part of the festivities celebrating the Oregon Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair, sited nearby, and taking place June 10 through September 17, 1959. From the National Register nomination, section 8, page 15: 'Oregon's roadside architecture is varied, but roadside representations of Paul Bunyan and loggers are popular topics. No other industry or living or mythical character is portrayed more often statewide. In Medford, Oregon, two 37-foot tin loggers greeted travelers until 1994 when they were moved to the Jackson County Fairgrounds. Another logger stands in front of BJ's Tools on the outskirts of Grants Pass. " The statue is a "muffler manni8 A diminutive statue of Ralph Bunyan, "Paul's little brother," stands in the town of Butte Falls. A more recent Buynan incarnation is outside Grants Pass at the Cedarwood Saloon where the owner transformed a muffler man originally designed a
Subject
Work Type
Location
Street Address
  • corner of North Denver Avenue and North Interstate Avenue
Material
  • steel; concrete; plaster
Rights Holder
  • Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
Identifier
  • OR_multnomah_portland_paulbunyanstatue.pdf
Source
Provenance
  • University of Oregon Libraries
Is Part Of
  • Oregon Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair (Portland, Oregon)
Institution
Submission Date
  • 05/04/2015
Modified
  • 08/12/2022
Collections

APA

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MLA

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Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Paul Bunyan Statue (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-20. https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df67rc31z

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Kenton Machine Works http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/KentonMachineWorks
2 Nelson, Victor R. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/NelsonVictorR
3 Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
4 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
5 public sculpture http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047112
6 sculpture (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047090
7 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
8 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
9 monuments http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006958
10 folk art (traditional art) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300056487
11 outdoor sculpture http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047180
12 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
13 exterior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124515
14 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
15 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
16 Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5742126/
17 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
18 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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