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Building History

Of the Dekum Building #1, the Portland architect and architectural historian George A. McMath wrote in 1980: "In 1871 he built the first Dekum Building on the northwest corner of Front and Washington Streets, a quarter block three story brick and cast-iron structure designed by E.M. Burton. At the time, it was considered finest business block in the state. Among the tenants was the dry goods house of S. Lipman & Co., which later became Lipman, Wolfe & Co., for whom the lower two floors of the 1892 Dekum Building was designed." (See George A. McMath, Allen McMath Hawkins, Architects, "The Dekum," National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form, published 03/20/1980, accessed 02/19/2019.)

PCAD id: 22735