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AKA: Ward's, Distribution Center, Portland, OR; Montgomery Park Office Building, Portland, OR
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - department stores; built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - industrial buildings - warehouses
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
9 stories
Between 1923-1929, Montgomery Ward and Company opened six giant Distribution Centers across the United States; two were located on the Pacific Coast, one in Oakland, CA, serving California, and this one storing goods for the Pacific Northwest. Ward's closed its Portland Distribution Center in 1976; it lay vacant for several years before the city and a developer could work out an appropriate solution for its adaptive reuse. Between 1984-1989, the Naito Corporation finished renovation of what it then called the "Montgomery Park" Office Building. In 2011, it still was the second largest building in Portland, measured by its cubic space.
An atrium was cut into the building to provide light into a central courtyard. This courtyard was rented out for weddings and other social functions c. 2011.
PCAD id: 16178
