Crown Mills (Portland, Oregon)
- Title
- Crown Mills (Portland, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture Flour mills
- Alternative
- Centennial Mills (Portland, Oregon)
- Creator
- Rosener, Leland S.
- Photographer
- Toso, John
- Creator Display
- Leland S. Rosener (engineer, 1872-1963)
- Description
- Crown Mills, a large scale flour mill, was operated by the Balfour, Guthrie and Company from its construction in 1910 through 1949, when it was sold to the Centennial Milling Company. The mill played an important role in the development history of the Pacific Northwest wheat trade. Balfour Guthrie, a Scottish-based shipping concern, was a significant player in the history of wheat and milling, as well as in the history of the development of the Port of Portland as an international shipping point. Balfour Guthrie built Crown Mills in 1910 to support its own wheat export trade and then enlarged and improved the facility over the next the four decades. Quoted from HAER document.
- View
- interior
- Temporal
- 1910-1919
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) built works industrial buildings warehouses flour mills
- Latitude
- 45.5339241
- Longitude
- -122.6826089
- Location
- Portland >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 1362 Northwest Naito Parkway
- Date
- 1910
- View Date
- 2015
- Identifier
- OR_Multnomah_CrownMills_03.tif
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Source
- Crown Mills, Portland, Oregon, Historic American Engineering Record Written Historical and Descriptive Data, Photographs, HAER No. OR-184. Prepared by Heritage Research Associates, Eugene, Oregon, 2016. Seattle: National Park Service, 2016.
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- 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.
- Biographical Information
- Leland S. Rosener developed the plans for the first phase of Crown Mills. Subsequent architects included Morris H. Whitehouse, Jacques A. Fouilhoux, Ernest B. MacNaughton, Lee H. Hoffman, and their associated firms. Rosener graduated from the University of California in 1899. He established an engineering firm in San Francisco and designed a variety of works, many involved in electrical and marine engineering. He also worked from the Atomic Energy Commission on US Navy projects toward the end of his career. Source: HAER documentation.