The Telegram Building is a historic building in

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 ...

. It was constructed in 1922, several years after ''The Evening Telegram'' newspaper had been purchased by John E. and L. R. Wheeler. The ''Telegram'' was a newspaper founded in 1877 by Henry L. Pittock; it merged in 1931 with the ''Portland News'', creating the ''

Portland News-Telegram The ''East Side News'' was a newspaper serving Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, founded in 1906. It was financed by the Scripps-Canfield publishing house of Seattle, but in complete secrecy, due to a promise E. W. Scripps had made to Sam Jac ...

'', which ceased publishing in 1939. The red brick and

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structure culminates in a colonial-style clock tower.King, Bart. ''An Architectural Guidebook to Portland'', pp. 53-54 (photo). Gibbs Smith, 2001 A major renovation was completed in 2004, renovating the building to accommodate multi-tenant office space. The renovation added two floors of underground parking, office space upstairs, and a penthouse (also office space) behind the clock tower. The Telegram Building was placed on the

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in 1994.

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