The Hamilton Building is a historic office building in
downtown
''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...
Portland, Oregon. It went through a renovation in 1977,
[King, Bart: ''An Architectural Guidebook to Portland'', p. 149. Gibbs Smith, 2001] and was listed on
National Register of Historic Places in March of that year.
It is the neighbor of the
Dekum Building
The Dekum or the Dekum Building is a historic office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
With its rusticated sandstone base, over-scaled arches at street level ...
, a fellow NRHP listing on Third Avenue.
The building, completed in 1893, is an anomaly among its contemporaries. While many buildings built during the late 19th century were often ornate, the Hamilton building has little decoration. It is said that architects
Whidden & Lewis
Whidden & Lewis was an architectural firm based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States, around the beginning of the 20th century, formed by William M. Whidden and Ion Lewis. The partnership was established in 1889. Their residential building ...
designed a ground-breaking building, built decades ahead of later (and similar) trends in commercial architecture. Decoration comes in the form of
granite-clad cast iron entry columns and cable mouldings, set against a Japanese-brick facade.
The Hamilton Building is 6 stories tall, and is named after Hamilton Corbett, son of
Henry W. Corbett
Henry Winslow Corbett (February 18, 1827March 31, 1903) was an American businessman, politician, civic benefactor, and philanthropist in the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts, he spent his early life in the East and New York (state), ...
. It is also the first building in Portland designed in the
Classical Revival style.
See also
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Architecture of Portland, Oregon
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References
External links
Hamilton Building (Emporis)
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Buildings and structures in Portland, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon
1893 establishments in Oregon
Buildings and structures completed in 1893
Buildings designated early commercial in the National Register of Historic Places
Southwest Portland, Oregon
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places