Weatherly Building

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Weatherly Building and Oriental Theater (Portland) , photographed December 31, 1927

Coordinates: 45 ° 31 ′ 1.2 ″  N , 122 ° 39 ′ 37.4 ″  W.

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The Weatherly Building in Portland , Oregon is a twelve-story commercial building in the United States . It was built in 1926 by businessman George Warren Weatherly , who made his living selling ice cream . With a height of 53.34 m, it is the tallest building in the city on the east side of the Willamette River .

As evidenced by a note on a December 31, 1927 photo, which is owned by the Library of Congress as part of the collection as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey , the building was designed and designed by architects Sutton & Whitney and Lee Thomas built by contractors Robertson Hay & Wallace .

background

Weatherly's ice cream manufacturing business started with a second hand ice cream maker in a small candy store in 1890 and grew to produce about 90 percent of the ice cream sold in Oregon. Weatherly was "locally attributed" to having invented the ice cream cone and was considered a "leading citizen of the East Side in the 1920s and 1930s". The building contributed to the so-called "Uptown District" developing in Portland. There was an ice cream parlor on its first floor.

architecture

Weatherly Building and Oriental Theater , photograph taken September 17, 1927 before the brick and terracotta facade was completed
Weatherly Building 2009

The Weatherly Building is a building with a neo-Romanesque facade made of bricks and decorative elements made of glazed terracotta , which had a row of arcade windows a little below the roof. It was one of the first skyscrapers on the east bank of the river, and its twelve stories towered over the Morrison Bridge. It has seven elevators and two rooftop penthouses . Construction began in 1927 and the building was completed in 1928.

The cinema operator Walter Eugene Tebetts convinced Weatherly to build the Oriental Theater directly adjacent . This was designed by Lee Thomas and Albert Mercier , who designed numerous cinema theater buildings in the Pacific Northwest . The tall and ornate building was the second largest in the area after the Portland Theater and was demolished in 1970 to make way for a parking lot. The initial investment cost for the Weatherly Building and the theater amounted to 1.5 million US dollars .

Ownership

The Weatherly Building was sold to Mayfield Investment of Palo Alto , California for $ 7.4 million in 2002 , having previously been owned by Landmark Investments since 1984.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Heidi J. Stout: Historic Weatherly Building sells quickly (English) . In: Portland Business Journal , February 21, 2002. Retrieved December 25, 2009. 
  2. ↑ a b Cone Pioneer Dies in Portland August 13, 1948 Eugene Register Guard
  3. ↑ a b c Emporis: Weatherly Building
  4. ^ Elisabeth Walton Potter, Elisabeth Walton Potter (State Park Historian, Salem, Oregon, January 1970), Lucy Pope Wheeler (Writer / Editor, HABS, 1976), Denys Peter Myers (Architectural Historian, HABS, 1979): Historic American Buildings Survey : The Oriental Theater, HABS No. Ore-55 ( English ) 1979 (Retrieved December 21, 2009).
  5. ↑ a b c d Laura O. Foster Portland City Walks: Twenty Explorations in and Around Town
  6. ↑ a b Skyscraper Page: Weatherly Building
  7. ^ Gary Lacher, Steve Stone Theaters of Portland , p. 58

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