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Dezendorf Apartment House (Portland, Oregon)

Alternative Title
  • Raintree Apartments (Portland, Oregon)
Creator Display
  • O. M. Dezendorf (builder/contractor)
  • H. Fred Claussen (architect, 1880-1942)
  • William E. Claussen (architect, died 1953)
  • Claussen & Claussen (architecture firm, 1908-1942)
Date
  • 1911
Description
  • The building is currently known as the Raintree Apartments (2016).
  • 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.
  • Picture caption: O. M. Dezendorf's apartment-house, which is now under construction on the east side of Sixteenth street, between Salmon and Taylor, representative of buildings of this class of moderate cost, many of which are being erected in Portland. It was designed by Claussen & Claussen architects and a four-story and basement brick structure, 60 by 100 feet. It will contain four five-room apartments on each of the upper floors and three in the basement, or 19 in all. The buildings will be equipped with automatic electric elevator, four electric dumb waiters and the usual modern conveniences of apartment-house construction. There will be an ornamental iron balcony for each apartment, built-in furniture and disappearing beds. The entrance will be of carved stone and the vestibule of marble. The cost will be about 50,000.
View
  • exterior, in 1911
View Date
  • 1911
Street Address
  • 924 Southwest 16th Avenue
GPS Latitude
  • 45.519815
GPS Longitude
  • -122.6909517
Identifier
  • pna_200112.tif
Source
  • Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, February 04, 1911, Section Six, Image 116
Submission Date
  • 10/20/2016
Modified
  • 07/29/2022
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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Wiki

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