Weatherly Building

Coordinates: 45°31′1.2″N 122°39′37.37″W / 45.517000°N 122.6603806°W / 45.517000; -122.6603806
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Weatherly Building
George Warren Weatherly
OwnerMayfield Investment Company
LandlordMayfield Investment[2]
Height53.34 metres (175.0 ft)[3]
Technical details
Floor count12
Floor area82,000 square feet (7,600 m2)[2]
Weatherly Building
Coordinates45°31′1.2″N 122°39′37.37″W / 45.517000°N 122.6603806°W / 45.517000; -122.6603806
Built1928[4]
ArchitectSutton & Whitney.[4]
Architectural styleModern Movement, Romanesque[4]
Part ofEast Portland Grand Avenue Historic District (ID91000126)
Designated CPMarch 4, 1991
Design and construction
Main contractorRobertson Hay & Wallace

The Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon, is a 12-story commercial office building. It was built in 1927–28 by ice cream businessman George Warren Weatherly.[2][5]

According to a photograph dated December 21, 1927, held by the

Historic American Buildings Survey collection (labeled "Stevens Commercial Photographers"), the building was designed by architects Sutton & Whitney[3] and Lee Thomas, and was built by Robertson Hay & Wallace general contractors.[6] It is listed as a secondary contributing property in the East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District.[4]

Background

Weatherly's

second-hand freezer in a small candy shop in 1890 and grew to produce an estimated 90% of Oregon ice cream sales. He was "locally credited"[7] with inventing the ice cream cone[5] and to have been the "east side's leading citizen in the 1920 and 1930s".[8] The building helped develop the so-called "uptown district"[8] and had an ice cream shop on its ground floor.[2] An employee of Weatherly's, F. A. Bruckman, invented and patented the first successful cone manufacturing machine.[5]

Architecture

The Weatherly Building in 2009, from the northwest

The Weatherly building has Romanesque brick and terra cotta embellishments, including an arcade of arches near the roof.[8] It "was among the first high-rise buildings east of the river, with 12 stories towering over the Morrison Bridge."[2] There are 3 elevators and two rooftop penthouses.[8]

Movie theatre operator

Portland Theatre. It was torn down in 1970 to make way for a parking lot. The building and theatre cost $1.5 million.[9]

Ownership and occupants

The Weatherly sold in 2002 to Mayfield Investment in Palo Alto, California for $7.4 million. It was previously owned by Landmark Investments, who owned it since 1984.[2][3]

Tenants of the Weatherly have included Burns Bros. Inc., Kerr Violin Shop, Bank of America,[10] Aqua Terra couples massage,[11] Grand Jete Café, the Portland Running Company, Lensbaby, Stand for Children,[12] Archscape Architecture.[2][10]

References

  1. ^ a b c SkyscraperPage: Weatherly Building
  2. ^
    Portland Business Journal
    . Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Emporis: Weatherly Building[dead link]
  4. ^ a b c d Portland Bureau of Planning (August 15, 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. Section 7, p. 88. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c Cone Pioneer Dies in Portland August 13, 1948 Eugene Register Guard
  6. ^ See inset in the infobox image
  7. ^ Potter, Elisabeth Walton; Lucy Pope Wheeler; Denys Peter Myers (1979). Historic American Buildings Survey: The Oriental Theatre, HABS No. Ore-55.
  8. ^ a b c d Laura O. Foster Portland City Walks: Twenty Explorations in and Around Town
  9. ^ Gary Lacher, Steve Stone Theatres of Portland, p. 58
  10. ^
    Portland Business Journal
    . Retrieved December 25, 2009.
  11. ^ Aqua Terra Massage, Location
  12. Portland Business Journal
    . November 10, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2016.

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