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Alco Apartments (Portland, Oregon)

Alternative Title
  • Vivian Apartments (Portland, Oregon)
Creator Display
  • Herbert E. Raymond (engineer)
  • MacNaughton & Raymond (architecture firm, 1906-1907)
  • Ernest B. MacNaughton (architect, 1880-1960)
  • George Morrison Post (architect, 1883-1966)
  • Advanced Construction Company (builder/contractor)
Creator
Date
  • 1912
Description
  • 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.
  • Built in 1912 at the north end of Portland’s central east side, the Alco Apartments opened at a time when east Portland was rapidly urbanizing, with competing commercial and residential uses vying for available space. Of key importance to these developments was proximity to streetcar lines connecting residential neighborhoods and suburban communities with the east side business district and downtown Portland. As a response to these competing needs, a new type of mixed-use building emerged in Portland in the closing decades of the nineteenth century and during the early twentieth century, combining storefronts at street level with apartments above, meeting the needs of both sectors. As development of new buildings in the central east side progressed during 1912, the Alco Apartments was featured in an ongoing series in The Sunday Oregonian, following their construction and highlighting their modern amenities and fine design. Strategically located on the streetcar line that traveled along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (then Union Avenue), the Alco was completed just before the rapid expansion of the automobile in the city, which would ultimately replace the streetcar as the dominant transportation mode until the late 20th century reintroduction and expansion of mass rail transit. Source: Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2017)
View
  • Interior: Units originally featured a murphy bed, a closet, a toilet, and sometimes a shower or bath (Murphy beds no longer remain in most units).
Temporal
  • 1910-1919
Subject
Work Type
Location
Street Address
  • 100-110 Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard
GPS Latitude
  • 45.523791
GPS Longitude
  • -122.611371
Rights Holder
  • 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, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit photographer and the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
Identifier
  • OR_MultnomahCounty_AlcoApartments_0018
Source
Institution
Submission Date
  • 05/31/2017
Modified
  • 08/12/2022
Collections

APA

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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 MacNaughton, Ernest B. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/MacNaughtonErnestB
2 MacNaughton & Raymond http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/MacNaughtonandRaymond
3 Post, George M. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/PostGeorgeM
4 Raymond, Herbert E. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/RaymondHerbertE
5 Architecture http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006611
6 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
7 Apartment houses http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005908
8 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
9 apartment houses http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005707
10 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
11 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
12 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
13 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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