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| Object Name | Olds & King Store (Portland, Oregon)
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| View | exterior |
| Alternate Name | Exchange Building (Portland, Oregon)
Fred Meyer Store (Portland, Oregon)
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| Creator/Role | Richard H. Martin, Jr. (architect, 1858-1950)
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| Creator | Martin, Richard H., Jr.
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| Date | 1903
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| Decade | 1900-1909
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| City | Portland
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| County | Multnomah
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| State/Province | Oregon
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| Country | United States
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| Site Detail | 514 Southwest 6th Avenue |
| Photographer | Marion Dean Ross (1913-1991)
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| Cataloger | Edward H. Teague |
| Object Type | architecture
built works
views (visual works)
exterior views
commercial buildings
stores
offices (work spaces)
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| Materials/Technique | buff colored brick piers and spandrels, brick window surrounds, deocrative sheet-metal roof cornice |
| Notes | According to the Morning Oregonian, January 4, 1904, this was Portland's first steel frame buidling without any lateral supports. This article also identifies Richard Martin as the architect, a recent discovery by Ed Teague (2011). The building underwent a major alteration by Newberrty & Schuette in 1970. |
| Metadata Notes | Description of this work is based initially on documentation supplied by the image provider. It is often the case with gift slides that very little information is provided. Review and updating of descriptive information by the collection cataloger is ongoing. |
| Digital Collection | Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
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| Source Collection | Architecture & Allied Arts Library, University of Oregon Libraries, http://library.uoregon.edu/aaa/ |
| Image Source | Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Copyright | © University of Oregon. This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ ). Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is required.. All Rights Reserved. |
| File Name | pna_06425.jpg |
