Weatherly Building
45.517005 - 122.660382Koordinaten: 45 ° 31 '1 " N, 122 ° 39' 37 " W
The Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon is a twelve -story industrial building in the United States. It was built in 1926 by businessman George Warren Weatherly, who made his money by selling ice cream. It is the tallest building in the city on the east side of the Willamette River with a height of 53.34 m.
As a note testifies, the wearing a custom-built on December 31, 1927 photograph, which is part of the collection as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey in the possession of the Library of Congress, the building by the architectural firm Sutton & Whitney and Lee Thomas has been designed and built by the contractors Robertson Hay & Wallace.
Background
Weatherlys production company for ice cream began in 1890 with a used ice machine resurrected in a small candy store and grew until the company produced about 90 percent of the ice cream sold in Oregon. Weatherly was to have " attributed to local" invented the ice cream cone and was considered a " leading citizens of the east side in the 1920s and 1930s ". The building contributed to that developed in Portland called the " Uptown District ". In its ground floor was an ice cream parlor.
Architecture
The Weatherly Building is a building with a Neo-Romanesque facade of brick and decorative elements made of glazed terracotta, something had an arcaded row of windows below the roof. It was one of the first skyscrapers on the eastern bank of the river, and its twelve stories towering over the Morrison Bridge. It has seven lifts and two penthouses on the roof. The construction began in 1927, 1928 the building was completed.
The cinema operator Walter Eugene Tebetts convinced Weatherly of directly adjacent to establish the Oriental Theatre. This was designed by Thomas Lee and Albert Mercier, of which the design of numerous cinema theater building in the Pacific Northwest comes from. The large and ornate building was the second largest of the region after the Portland Theatre was founded in 1970 and torn down to make way for a parking lot. The initial investment cost for the Weatherly Building and the theater amounted to 1.5 million U.S. dollars.
Ownership
The Weatherly Building was sold in 2002 at a cost of 7.4 million U.S. dollars to the company Mayfield Investment in Palo Alto, California, after it previously was owned by Landmark Investments since 1984.