Coming next (Emerick Architects) In the history of Portland's architectural preservation battles, the story of the Nathan Simon house ...

  135 NW Park Ave.  The handwriting is on the wall – er, in the windows – for two old brick buildings at 105 and 135 NW Park Ave. on the wes...

  We venture out of our customary urban jungle today to celebrate reconstruction of what might be Oregon’s oldest building.   It is known as...

Household washing machines were far in the future when James F. Tait, a Scottish immigrant, opened his Portland laundry service in 1889.  I...

One of the ugliest squabbles in Portland preservation history may be drawing to a close thanks to proposed new rules that would determine wh...

Few Portland neighborhoods care as much about their architectural heritage the sprawling Northwest District Association.   Back in 1989...

Planning is in the final stages for renovation of Benson Polytechnic High School.  The expansive project presents the difficult chore of...

Billy Webb Elks Lodge  Little-known chapters of African American history in Portland earned a well-deserved boost from the National ...

The sadness here is not about the loss of a fine old building.  The building will survive.  The sadness is about loss of its pleasant and me...

The quotation above, surely one of the greatest in architectural lore, came from a mid-20th Century master of the glass and steel skys...

Nothing better can happen to a well-maintained, gracious historic building than returning to its original use. We should stage a h...