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Crown Mills (Portland, Oregon)

Alternative Title
  • Centennial Mills (Portland, Oregon)
Creator Display
  • Leland S. Rosener (engineer, 1872-1963)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • 1910
Description
  • Crown Mills, a large scale flour mill, was operated by the Balfour, Guthrie and Company from its construction in 1910 through 1949, when it was sold to the Centennial Milling Company. The mill played an important role in the development history of the Pacific Northwest wheat trade. Balfour Guthrie, a Scottish-based shipping concern, was a significant player in the history of wheat and milling, as well as in the history of the development of the Port of Portland as an international shipping point. Balfour Guthrie built Crown Mills in 1910 to support its own wheat export trade and then enlarged and improved the facility over the next the four decades. Quoted from HAER document.
View
  • interior
View Date
  • 2015
Temporal
  • 1910-1919
Biographical Information
  • Leland S. Rosener developed the plans for the first phase of Crown Mills. Subsequent architects included Morris H. Whitehouse, Jacques A. Fouilhoux, Ernest B. MacNaughton, Lee H. Hoffman, and their associated firms. Rosener graduated from the University of California in 1899. He established an engineering firm in San Francisco and designed a variety of works, many involved in electrical and marine engineering. He also worked from the Atomic Energy Commission on US Navy projects toward the end of his career. Source: HAER documentation.
MODS Note
  • 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.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Street Address
  • 1362 Northwest Naito Parkway
GPS Latitude
  • 45.5339241
GPS Longitude
  • -122.6826089
Identifier
  • OR_Multnomah_CrownMills_21.tif
Source
  • Crown Mills, Portland, Oregon, Historic American Engineering Record Written Historical and Descriptive Data, Photographs, HAER No. OR-184. Prepared by Heritage Research Associates, Eugene, Oregon, 2016. Seattle: National Park Service, 2016.
Institution
Submission Date
  • 10/04/2016
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (16 Apr 2024). Crown Mills (Portland, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/fx71c352f

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Crown Mills (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 16 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/fx71c352f

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Crown Mills (Portland, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-16. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/fx71c352f

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Rosener, Leland S. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/RosenerLelandS
2 Toso, John http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/TosoJohn
3 Architecture http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006611
4 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
5 Flour mills http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049274
6 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
7 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
8 industrial buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006231
9 flour mills http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006286
10 warehouses http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300007722
11 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
12 Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5742126/
13 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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