AKA: Lombard Automotive Buildings, Pearl District, Portland, OR

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - stores; built works - industrial buildings - warehouses

Designers: Jacobberger and Smith, Architects (firm); Joseph Jacobberger (architect); Alfred H. Smith (architect)

Dates: constructed 1915

3 stories

720 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR 97209-3664

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Jacobberger and Smith designed this unreinforced brick building for the Overland Automobile Company, founded in Terre Haute, IN, in 1903; by 1908, Overland had been bought by John North Willys, and in 1912, the company was officially renamed the Willys-Overland Motor Company, with production gradually moving from Indianapolis, IN, to Toledo, OH.

In later years, this building was joined with its neighbor to the west, the Oregon Motor Company Building to form the Lombard Automotive Company complex.

PCAD id: 13944