Sherlock Building (Portland, Oregon)

Title: Sherlock Building (Portland, Oregon)
LC Subject: Architecture, American Architecture--United States
Alternative: Forbes & Breeden Building (Portland, Oregon)
Photographer: Ross, Marion Dean
Description: National Register (Listed, 1981)
View: exterior
Provenance: Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Temporal: 1890-1899
Work Type: architecture (object genre) built works views (visual works) exterior views facilities, commercial mercantiles (buildings) storage facilities warehouses office buildings
Latitude: 45.520857
Longitude: -122.674666
Location: Portland >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States
Street Address: 309 Southwest 3rd Avenue
Date: 1894
View Date: 1958-03-30
Identifier: pna_07375
Item Locator: mdr08374
Rights: In Copyright
Rights Holder: University of Oregon
Source: Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: Building Oregon
Primary Set: Building Oregon
Institution: University of Oregon
Citation: National Register of Historic Places, http://www.nps.gov/nr/
Note: The architect of the Sherlock Building is not known. Isaac Hodgson, Jr., and F. Manson White, respectively, have been attributed without sourcing. The author of the National Register nomination provides this speculation: "The name of the "anonymous" architect of the Sherlock Building has for many years been an enigma to local architects and historians. Since none of the work of contemporary local architects resembles the Sherlock design, and none of the local publications or periodicals yet discovered names the Sherlock Building architect, nor is the Sherlock noted in the published or un- published lists of local architect's work, it seems fair to assume that the designer of the Sherlock Building was not from Portland. A likely candidate is architect Isaac Hodgson, Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska. Hodgson came to Portland in 1890 to work on the design of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The eight story Chamber of Commerce Building, completed in September, 1893, (razed 1933) occupied the half block on S. W. Stark Street between 3rd and 4th, adjoining the Sherlock Building. Promoter of the Chamber of Commerce Building was George B. Markle, Jr., President of the Northwest Loan & Trust Co., who developed the Forbes & Breeden, nee Sherlock Building. Hodgson's tenure in Port- land coincided with construction of the C. of C. Building and Markle's departure from Portland in 1894 after his financial ruin in the 1893 Panic."