The work of Whidden and Lewis in Portland
The records behind these stops attribute them to Whidden and Lewis. They carry the buildings and not the life behind them, so this page keeps to what the listings themselves hold.
12 stops, 1.5 miles end to end. The dated ones run from 1895 to 1909.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Sep 18, 2026.
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Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data, or from Wikidata where the spatial data has no point. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Walking order
- 1Hamilton Building529 SW 3rd Ave.Building · listed 1977start
- 2Postal Building510 SW 3rd Ave.Building · listed 1978163 ft from stop 1
- 3Concord Building208 SW Stark St.Building · listed 1977277 ft from stop 2
- 4Mohawk Building708--724 3rd Ave., SWBuilding · listed 19960.2 mi from stop 3
- 5Gilbert Building319 SW Taylor St.Building · listed 1980396 ft from stop 4
- 6Multnomah County Courthouse1021 SW 4th Ave.Building · listed 19790.1 mi from stop 5
- 7Portland City Hall1220 SW 5th Ave.Building · built 1895 · listed 19740.1 mi from stop 6
- 8Arlington Club811 SW Salmon StBuilding · built 1909 · listed 20100.2 mi from stop 7
- 9Stevens Building812 SW. Washington St.Building · listed 19980.2 mi from stop 8
- 10Wilcox Building506 SW 6th Ave.Building · listed 19890.1 mi from stop 9
- 11Failing Office Building620 SW. 5th Ave.Building · listed 2007429 ft from stop 10
- 12New Imperial Hotel400 SW BroadwayBuilding · built 1909 · listed 20030.3 mi from stop 11
1.5 straight-line miles over 11 legs.
Taking it along
- Download the route as GPXFor a handheld GPS or a phone app
- Open all 12 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
Other walks in Portland
- The work of A. E. Doyle in Portland15 stops · 2.4 milesThe record behind every stop attributes it to A. E. Doyle. The dated ones went up between 1910 and 1927.
- Queen Anne houses in Portland10 stops · 1.6 milesQueen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches.
- Chicago School architecture in Portland15 stops · 1.7 milesChicago 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.
- Colonial Revival houses in Portland13 stops · 1.7 milesColonial Revival reworks the symmetry, shutters and classical doorways of American colonial building. The Portland examples on this route went up between 1898 and 1913.
- Renaissance Revival architecture in Portland10 stops · 2.0 milesRenaissance 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.
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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