Wilcox Building, Portland, OR (1911)

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings

Designers: Whidden and Lewis, Architects (firm); Ion Lee Lewis (architect); William Marcy Whidden (architect)

Dates: constructed 1911

506 SW 6th Avenue
Portland, OR 97204-1533
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Theodore Burney Wilcox (1856-1918), who made a fortune in banking, commissioned the Portland firm of Whidden and Lewis, to design this office property. Its scale, structure and styling closely resemble the Stevens Building also by Whidden and Lewis.

This building, like almost all tall buildings built on the West Coast after the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, had a steel frame.

PCAD id: 13781

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