Walking tours of Portland
More of the dated building in Portland went up in the 1910s than in any other decade. Houses make up the largest group by what the buildings were for.
6 themed routes run through those listings. Of the routes below, four follow a single style and two follow a single architect. A subject becomes a route only where the register holds enough of it close enough together to walk.
Every listing in Portland → · 626 in all
The routes
- ArchitectThe work of Whidden and Lewis in Portland12 stops · 1.5 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026The record behind every stop attributes it to Whidden and Lewis. The dated ones went up between 1895 and 1909.
- ArchitectThe work of A. E. Doyle in Portland15 stops · 2.4 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026The record behind every stop attributes it to A. E. Doyle. The dated ones went up between 1910 and 1927.
- StyleQueen Anne houses in Portland10 stops · 1.6 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Queen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches.
- StyleChicago School architecture in Portland15 stops · 1.7 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Chicago School names commercial buildings raised on steel frames, with wide windows, expressed structural bays and little applied ornament. The Portland examples on this route went up between 1909 and 1912.
- StyleColonial Revival houses in Portland13 stops · 1.7 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Colonial Revival reworks the symmetry, shutters and classical doorways of American colonial building. The Portland examples on this route went up between 1898 and 1913.
- StyleRenaissance Revival architecture in Portland10 stops · 2.0 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Renaissance Revival draws on the Italian palazzo, with a rusticated ground floor, round arched windows and a strong horizontal cornice. The Portland examples on this route went up between 1904 and 1927.
Every route holds at least ten stops and stays under two and a half miles. Routes are computed from the coordinates in the National Park Service National Register spatial data or, where it has no point, Wikidata, and the distances are straight lines between stops. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Local history books for Portland
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- Murder & Scandal in Prohibition PortlandJD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy, 2016Find at Bookshop.org
Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Oregon
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