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New York born teacher, lawyer and politician Rufus Mallory (1831-1914) came to the Oregon Territory in 1859. He taught school immediately after his arrival and was admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1860. Mallory was elected to one two-year term as a State Representative in OR in 1862 and thereafter worked as a District Attorney in Salem, OR between 1862-1866; he served as DA in Salem until being elected to the US House of Representatives in 1868 for a single term. Following a short assignment as a Special Agent for the US Treasury, a post that took him to Asia, Mallory came back to OR, and transplanted himself to Portland, where he joined a new legal practice in the growing city. He developed many ties in the community through his legal career and gradually became interested in real estate. Mallory commissioned the design and construction of his eponymous hotel a few years before he died in 1914.

The brick-faced Mallory Hotel, Portland, OR, had 130 guest rooms in 2005. Like many hotels of the era, the eight-story Mallory had a U-shaped plan, with a light court in the center to ventilate internal rooms. It featured an very elegant classically-ornamented dining room that was preserved and enhanced when it was renovated in 2006. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Tel: 503.219.2094; 866.895.2094 (2011).

Provenance Hotels, which in 2011 owned five hotels in OR, WA, CA, and TN, bought the deLuxe for $7.9 million in 2004. San Francisco interior designer David Hill supervised the redesign of the Mallory Hotel in 2006. The hotel's web site stated: "created as a tribute to the Hollywood era of glamour and romance, while paying a respectful nod to today's filmmakers. All the design and detailing is based on the architectural and decorative arts of the 1920's through the 1940's." (See "A Unique Downtown Portland Hotel,"Accessed 05/02/2011.) Approximately 400 movie stills were used throughout the establishment to underscore Hill's vintage Hollywood aesthetic. The $10 million renovation tastefully retained earlier Classical elements of the original building, mixing them with a contemporary color palette and 1930s-influenced furnishings. Klaudio Simic was the hotel's Executive Director in 2011.

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