Bridger School (Portland, Oregon)
- Title
- Bridger School (Portland, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture--United States
- Alternative
- Hudson Primary School (Portland, Oregon) Bridger Elementary School (Portland, Oregon)
- Creator
- Thompson, Raymond K.
- Creator Display
- Raymond Kermit Thompson (architect, 1905-1995)
- Description
- This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Oregon Historic Site Form. Prepared by Iris Eschen. 2009
- Provenance
- University of Oregon Libraries
- Temporal
- 1950-1959
- Style Period
- International Style (modern European architecture style)
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) built works views (visual works) exterior views public schools (buildings) architectural drawings (visual works) plans (orthographic projections) plans, floor
- Latitude
- 45.510739
- Longitude
- -122.58233
- Location
- Portland >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States
- Street Address
- 7910 SE Market Street
- Date
- 1951
- View Date
- 2009
- Identifier
- OR_Multnomah_Portland_
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Type
- Image
- Format
- application/pdf
- Material
- Brick
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Note
- Raymond Kermit Thompson was born in Seaside, Oregon, August 27, 1905, and died in Portland, November 13, 1995. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon in 1929. He married Polly Povey, also a UO architecture student, in 1929. The Thompsons lived in Boston, 1931 to 1942, where Raymond attend MIT for two years and served as instructor at Wentworth Institute. After service in World War II, Thompson was an associate professor at Ohio State University. From 1948, the Thompsons returned to Portland. From 1951 to 1953, Raymond was supervising architect of the Portland Public Schools. From 1953 to 1969, the Thompsons worked as the partnership, Raymond Kermit Thompson and Polly Povey Thompson, Architects. From 1969 to 1994, the firm's name was Thompson & Thompson Architects. Polly Thompson died in 1994. Raymond Thompson died the next year. Source: Ritz, Richard, and others. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased - 19th and 20th Centuries (Portland: Lars Hill, 2003).
