The Odd Fellows Building in downtown

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 ...

, was built in 1922–1924. It served historically as a clubhouse. It was listed on the

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in 1980 for its architecture, which is

Late Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

. It is a six-story structure built of reinforced concrete, with a full concrete basement. It was deemed "significant to Portland as the singular example of Period architecture in the "Gothic" style, in which Tudor Gothic elements of

terra cotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...

were applied to a

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form. One of 75 building standing in the city today which were built between 1900 and 1930 & which incorporate structural terra cotta, the Odd Fellows Building is among the most distinctive of its type because of its unique stylistic theme and because of the prominent site it occupies in the midst of a bustling few blocks between the

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and the Central Library." It was designed by German-born architect Ernst Kroner (1866–1955), who was notably active in politics in Portland from 1889 to 1897. With Kroner also designed the Clatskanie IOOF Hall, which is also NRHP-listed.

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* Gothic Revival architecture in Oregon Buildings and structures completed in 1922 Odd Fellows buildings in Oregon National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon 1922 establishments in Oregon Buildings and structures in Southwest Portland, Oregon Portland Historic Landmarks {{Oregon-NRHP-stub

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