Renaissance Revival architecture in Portland
Renaissance Revival draws on the Italian palazzo, with a rusticated ground floor, round arched windows and a strong horizontal cornice. American architects used it for banks, clubs and libraries between 1880 and 1930.
The stops that carry a construction date run from 1904 to 1927. 10 stops, 2.0 miles end to end.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Sep 18, 2026.
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Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data, or from Wikidata where the spatial data has no point. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Walking order
- 1Waldo Block431--433 SW 2nd Ave.Building · listed 1982start
- 2Multnomah Hotel319 SW PineBuilding · listed 19850.2 mi from stop 1
- 3Wells Fargo Building309 S.W. Sixth Ave.Building · built 1907 · listed 19860.2 mi from stop 2
- 4U.S. Customhouse220 NW 8th Ave.Building · listed 19740.2 mi from stop 3
- 5Arminius Hotel1022--1038 SW Morrison St.Building · built 1904 · listed 19880.4 mi from stop 4
- 6Villa St. Clara Apartments909 SW Twelfth Ave.Building · listed 20000.1 mi from stop 5
- 7Olive and Ellsworth Hyland Apartments1424 and 1434 SW Morrison, and 716 SW 15th Ave.Building · listed 19800.2 mi from stop 6
- 8Paramount Theatre1037 SW BroadwayBuilding · built 1927 · listed 19760.4 mi from stop 7
- 9U.S. Courthouse620 SW Main St.Building · listed 19790.1 mi from stop 8
- 10Pacific Building520 SW. Yamhill St.Building · listed 19920.1 mi from stop 9
2.0 straight-line miles over 9 legs.
Taking it along
- Download the route as GPXFor a handheld GPS or a phone app
- Open all 10 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
Other walks in Portland
- The work of Whidden and Lewis in Portland12 stops · 1.5 milesThe record behind every stop attributes it to Whidden and Lewis. The dated ones went up between 1895 and 1909.
- The work of A. E. Doyle in Portland15 stops · 2.4 milesThe record behind every stop attributes it to A. E. Doyle. The dated ones went up between 1910 and 1927.
- Queen Anne houses in Portland10 stops · 1.6 milesQueen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches.
- Chicago School architecture in Portland15 stops · 1.7 milesChicago School names commercial buildings raised on steel frames, with wide windows, expressed structural bays and little applied ornament. The Portland examples on this route went up between 1909 and 1912.
- Colonial Revival houses in Portland13 stops · 1.7 milesColonial Revival reworks the symmetry, shutters and classical doorways of American colonial building. The Portland examples on this route went up between 1898 and 1913.
Local history books for Portland
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- Murder & Scandal in Prohibition PortlandJD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy, 2016Find at Bookshop.org
Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Oregon
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