Bon Marche Department Store, Downtown, Eugene, OR (1954)

AKA: Bon Marche-Russell's Department Store, Eugene, OR

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - department stores

Designers: Graham, John and Company, Architects and Engineers (firm); Manson Otis Bennett (architect); John Graham Jr. (architect)

Dates: constructed 1954

3 stories

click to open gallery Exterior of the Bon Marche Department Store Building, Eugene, 2015; from Google Maps/Street View, 08/2015
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Broadway and Charnelton Street
Downtown, Eugene, OR 97401
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NE corner of Broadway and Charnelton St.

Overview

The Seattle architectural and engineering firm of John Graham and Company designed this department store in 1953 for Allied Stores, owners of the Bon Marche. Graham employee, Manson O. Bennett (1912-2005), worked as a designer on this 160 by 160-foot building that contained 98,000 square feet on three floors. The building contained escalators and was known as the Bon Marche-Russell's into the 1970s.

Building History

The Sunnyvale, CA-based software company, Symantec, founded 03/01/1982, utilized this former Bon Marche Department Store for about 10 years.

Alteration

Following the Bon Marche's relocation to Valley River Center in 1990, later occupants punctured windows through second and third-floor walls.

PCAD id: 20710

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