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Portland Hotel Company records, 1888-1943
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Portland Hotel Company (Portland, Or.)
- Title
- Portland Hotel Company records
- Dates
- 1888-1943 (inclusive)18881943
- Quantity
- 1 cubic feet, (2 document cases, 1 volume in custom box)
- Collection Number
- Mss 745
- Summary
- Records of the company that built and owned the Portland Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The hotel operated from 1890 to the 1940s and was, for a time, the city's grandest. The collection includes minutes of board meetings, stock records, articles of incorporation, a color brochure from the 1890s, and a hotel register from 1890.
- Repository
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Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The Portland Hotel, in Portland, Oregon, began in 1883 as a project of railroad magnate Henry Villard. After Villard's financial failure, construction on the hotel came to a halt in 1884. It sat incomplete until 1888, when a group of Portland investors took over the project, and the hotel finally opened in 1890. For a time, it was the largest and most elegant hotel in the city, but by the 1940s, the hotel was struggling. In 1944, Meier & Frank purchased the building, and it was demolished and replaced with a parking lot in 1951. In the 1980s, the site of the former hotel became Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Source: "Portland Hotel" by Leland Roth, Oregon Encyclopedia, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/portland_hotel/
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection consists of records of the Portland Hotel and the company that built and owned it. Records include articles of incorporation and board of directors' minutes, 1888-1926; a stock ledger, 1891-1943; stock subscribers' assessments, 1889-1931; a stock dividend book, 1904-1940; a brochure, circa 1895; stationery; and a hotel register with entries for April-June, 1890.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Portland Hotel Company records, Mss 745, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Restrictions on Use
The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Hotels--Oregon--Portland
Corporate Names
- Portland Hotel (Portland, Or.)--Records and correspondence
- Portland Hotel Company (Portland, Or.)--Records and correspondence
Geographical Names
- Portland (Or.)--History
Form or Genre Terms
- ledgers (account books)
- minutes (administrative records)
- registers (lists)
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Portland Hotel (Portland, Or.) (creator)
