Carter Building (Portland, Oregon)
- Title
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Carter Building (Portland, Oregon)
- LC Subject
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Architecture, American
Architecture--United States
- Alternative
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Carter, Charles M., Building (Portland, Oregon)
Charles M. Carter Building (Portland, Oregon)
- Creator
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Nestor, John
- Creator Display
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John Nestor (architect)
- Description
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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.
- View
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exterior
- Temporal
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1860-1869
- Style Period
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Italianate (North American architecture styles )
- Work Type
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architecture (object genre)
built works
views (visual works)
exterior views
facilities, commercial
mercantiles (buildings)
stores
ironworks (visual works)
- Location
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Portland >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Oregon >> United States
United States
- Street Address
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southwest corner of Front Street and Alder Street
- Date
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1865
- Identifier
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pna_22667
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Rights Holder
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University of Oregon
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Material
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cast iron
- Set
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Building Oregon
- Primary Set
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Building Oregon
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Citation
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Hawkings, William J., III. The Grand Era of Cast-Iron Architecture in Portland. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1976.
- Note
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The druggists Wood & Company and the architect John Nestor were among the first tennants of this building.
John Nestor was born in about 1836 in Ireland. He arrived in Portland in about 1864 from San Francisco and designed numerous works, few of which are known today or are still extant. He left the architectural profession in about 1877 and moved to Cornelius, Oregon, where he managed a farm. In the 1880 US Census, Nestor is listed as a farmer, living in Cornelius with wife Mary (age 28), and children Carrie (8), John (6), and Lille (3). Sources: US Census, Morning Oregonian March 7, 1878, p. 3.