Arleta Branch Library (Portland, Oregon)
- Title
- Arleta Branch Library (Portland, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture Libraries
- Alternative
- Wikman Building (Portland, Oregon)
- Photographer
- Rahim, Abbasi
- Description
- Constructed in 1918 using Carnegie Corporation grant funds, the brick Colonial Revival-style Arleta Branch Library, more recently known as the Wikman Building, was designed by well-known Portland architect Folger Johnson. The Arleta Branch Library is one of thirty-one Carnegie libraries built in Oregon, and one of seven built in the Portland area during the 1910s and early 1920s. Its Colonial Revival style is typical of this period of architecture in general, as well as reflective of Carnegie Corporation guidelines for library design. The Arleta Branch Library was the sixth Carnegie library to be constructed as part of the Library Association of Portland’s (now Multnomah County’s) branch library system and served its surrounding community through 1971 when city library services were centralized. Source: Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.
- View
- reading room, east wall and southeast corridor
- Temporal
- 1910-1919
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) built works libraries (buildings) branch libraries (buildings) reading rooms
- Latitude
- 45.490483
- Longitude
- -122.597079
- Location
- Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Portland >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 4420 Southeast 64th Avenue
- Date
- 1918
- View Date
- 2015
- Identifier
- OR_MultnomahCounty_ArletaBranchLibrary_0011
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Rights Holder
- This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Citation
- Oregon Historic Sites Database, http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/
- Note
- 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. National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2016) National Register of Historic Places was prepared by Liz Carter.