Kenton Commercial Historic District
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The Kenton Commercial Historic District is a historic district in north
Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...
's Kenton neighborhood, in the United States. The district is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
.


Description

Kenton's principal commercial district is located on North Denver Avenue, extending roughly four blocks south from North Interstate Avenue, where the Paul Bunyan statue stands. The district was developed mainly between 1910 and 1949, and contains an unusually high concentration of buildings constructed using ornamental concrete blocks. The area developed directly as an outgrowth of Swift & Company's decision to run a streetcar line along the street from its stockyards to the rest of the Portland streetcar network. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 for its role in the development of the neighborhood and the city.


Properties

Contributing and noncontributing properties include: * Bingham Building * Cassady Building * Chaldean Theater * Coulter Building * Dupey Building * First National Bank of Portland Livestock Kenton Branch * Goldstein Building * Hobbs Building * Johnson Building * Kenton Bank Building * Kenton Club * Kenton Garage *
Kenton Hotel The Kenton Hotel is a historic hotel in Portland, Oregon. It was built in 1909, added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1990, and identified as a contributing resource in the Kenton Commercial Historic District when the ...
* Kenton Lodge * Kenyon Building * Mackin and Son * McArthur Hotel * Rosin Building * Smith Building * Stafford & Frank Building * Strocheker Building * Sylvester Building


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in North Portland, Oregon Current listings Former listing References {{NRORextlinks, PDX North Portland, Oregon North North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is pe ...


References


External links

* {{Kenton, Portland, Oregon Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon Kenton, Portland, Oregon National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon