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AKA: American Bank Building, Portland, OR; Wells Fargo and Company Bank, Headquarters Building, Southwest Portland, Portland, OR
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - banks (buildings); built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Doyle, Patterson and Beach, Architects (firm); James George Beach (engineer); Albert Ernest Doyle (architect); William B. Patterson (engineer)
Dates: constructed 1913-1914
14 stories
Building History
Bankers Henry L. Pittock and Frederick Leadbetter commissioned this building from the leading architect in the city at the time, A.E. Doyle, and his firm, Doyle, Patterson and Beach. Their bank failed in 1927, as did subsequent financial institutions headquartered here.
Building Notes
The previous building on this parcel of Downtown Portland land collapsed.
Alteration
Alterations were made to brickwork of the bank's front in 1983; buff bricks were re-tinted white. The front entrance and its marquee underwent alterations in 1936 and 1984.
PCAD id: 13778
