Northwest Portland
The Union Station
Montgomery Park
The Pittock Mansion
The Portland Armory

Northwest Portland includes the Pearl District, most of Old Town Chinatown, the Northwest District, and various residential and industrial neighborhoods. A range of streets primarily in Northwest Portland is named alphabetically from Ankeny through York (the street following York is Reed Street). The street between Wilson and York was called "X Street" until it was renamed as Roosevelt Street.[2] Burnside Street, the "B" in the sequence, divides the Northeast and Northwest quadrants of the city from the Southeast and Southwest.

Northwest

Portland, OR.



Union Station 2017 Train moving through the Union Station Union Station tracks

Portland Union Station

Portland Union Station is an Amtrak train station near the west shore of the Willamette River in the Old Town Chinatown section of Portland. The station building contains offices on the upper floors, as well as Wilf's Restaurant and Piano Bar on the ground level. It also has Amtrak's first Metropolitan Lounge on the West Coast.

Southeast of the station, the tracks make a sharp turn and cross the river on the historic Steel Bridge. To the northwest, they follow the river, passing through rail yards before crossing the river again on the Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge.

Union Station connects to TriMet MAX Green and Yellow Line trains at the nearby Union Station/Northwest 6th & Hoyt Street and Union Station/Northwest 5th & Glisan Street stations, as well as local bus service provided by TriMet.

The initial design for the station was created in 1882 by McKim, Mead, and White. Had the original plan been built, the station would have been the largest train station in the world. A smaller plan was introduced by architects Van Brunt & Howe, and accepted in 1885. Construction of the station began in 1890. It was built by Northern Pacific Terminal Company at a cost of $300,000, and opened on February 14, 1896. The signature piece of the structure is the 150 ft. tall Romanesque Revival clock tower. The neon signs were added to it in 1948. The signs read "Go by Train" on the northeast and southwest sides and "Union Station" on the northwest and southeast sides.

The station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Vintage arial view of Montgomery Park Building

Montgomery Park

Montgomery Park is an office building and former Montgomery Ward mail-order catalog warehouse and department store in Portland, Oregon, United States, built in 1920. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places under its historic name Montgomery Ward & Company Building. The building is located on property once used for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, of 1905. It was occupied by Montgomery Ward from 1920 until 1985, although the majority of the company's operations at this location ended in 1982. The building is the second largest office building in Portland with 577,339 square feet.The building is known for its large steel-framed roof sign, the largest sign in Portland, which was constructed in 1925.

At the time of its completion, in September 1920, the building was the largest in the city, as measured by floor space, which was approximately 569,000 square feet originally. A 229,000-square-foot wing was added to the building's northwest corner in 1935–36, changing what had been an L-shaped building to a U-shaped one. The building has nine floors plus a basement. The 4th through 9th floors were used almost exclusively as warehouse space, while most portions of the 2nd and 3rd floors functioned as office and mail-order workspace. The first floor was used primarily for loading and unloading of freight, arriving and leaving by truck or rail. Three rail spurs served the facility, extending into the ground floor.

Close up of Montgomery Park Sign 2014 Vintage car entrance to Montgomery Park Angle view of Montgomery Park 2014
Pittock Mansion 2016 Henry and Georgiana Pittock
Vintage rear view of Pittock Mansion

The Pittock Mansion

Built in 1914 for one of Oregon’s influential families, Pittock Mansion is filled with rich history and remarkable stories.

Henry Pittock, owner of The Oregonian newspaper, and his wife Georgiana, built Pittock Mansion in 1914. The City of Portland now owns the estate, and Portland Parks & Recreation and the non-profit Pittock Mansion Society work in collaboration to operate and maintain the museum and surrounding park.

When Henry Pittock and his future wife Georgiana Burton arrived, separately, by wagon trains in the 1850s, Portland was a muddy village, isolated from the rest of the United States and the world.

Henry found work as a typesetter at The Weekly Oregonian newspaper, and became the paper’s owner and publisher. He went on to build an empire incorporating real estate, banking, railroads, steamboats, sheep ranching, silver mining, and the pulp and paper industry. Georgiana Pittock became a founder and fundraiser for many charities and cultural organizations, such as Ladies Relief Society, Women’s Union, and the Martha Washington Home.

Vintage Portland Armory
The Armory Entrance 2017 Inside The Armory during a show 2016

The Armory

Widely noted as the “crown jewel” of the Brewery Blocks redevelopment, The Armory’s renovation has contributed to the revitalization of the Pearl/River District, providing both a near-term economic benefit of $14.7 million to the community and a projected long-term impact of $100 million in new economic activity over the next decade.

Since The Armory became the first building in the Cascadia region – and the first historical renovation of a performing arts venue in the world – to achieve a Platinum LEED certification, it has drawn groups of people interested in sustainable design from across the country, as well as international delegations from Russia, Belgium and Hungary.

An estimated 150,000 visitors go to The Armory annually to enjoy a mix of classical, contemporary and world premiere productions, along with the annual JAW: A Playwrights Festival, The Armory also hosts a variety of high quality education and community programs.