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Weatherly Building

Building in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Field	Value
name	Weatherly Building
former_names	Crystal Ice & Storage Co. Office & Theatre building, The Weatherly
image	Weatherly Building - Oriental Theatre - 1927 - Portland Oregon.jpg
caption	Weatherly Building and Oriental Theatre on December 31, 1927, when the Weatherly was still under construction
map_type	USA Portland downtown
map_caption	Location in central Portland
building_type	Highrise
architectural_style	Beaux-Arts, modern
cost	1.5 million USD (including theatre)
location	Portland, Oregon
address	516 SE Morrison Street
client	George Warren Weatherly
owner	Mayfield Investment Company
current_tenants	Bank of America, Lensbaby
landlord	Mayfield Investment
start_date	1927
completion_date	1928
height	53.34 m
floor_count	12
floor_area	82000 sqft
embed	yes
name	Weatherly Building
nrhp_type	cp
partof	East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District
partof_refnum	91000126
nocat	yes
coordinates
built	1928
architect	Sutton & Whitney.
architecture	Modern Movement, Romanesque
designated_nrhp_type	March 4, 1991
main_contractor	Robertson Hay & Wallace

The Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon, is a 12-story commercial office building. It was built in 1927–28 by ice cream businessman George Warren Weatherly.

According to a photograph dated December 21, 1927, held by the Library of Congress as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey collection (labeled "Stevens Commercial Photographers"), the building was designed by architects Sutton & Whitney and Lee Thomas, and was built by Robertson Hay & Wallace general contractors. It is listed as a secondary contributing property in the East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District.

Background

Weatherly's creamery business started with a second-hand freezer in a small candy shop in 1890 and grew to produce an estimated 90% of Oregon ice cream sales. He was "locally credited" with inventing the ice cream cone and to have been the "east side's leading citizen in the 1920 and 1930s". The building helped develop the so-called "uptown district" and had an ice cream shop on its ground floor. An employee of Weatherly's, F. A. Bruckman, invented and patented the first successful cone manufacturing machine.

Architecture

The Weatherly Building in 2009, from the northwest

The Weatherly building has Romanesque brick and terra cotta embellishments, including an arcade of arches near the roof. It "was among the first high-rise buildings east of the river, with 12 stories towering over the Morrison Bridge." There are 3 elevators and two rooftop penthouses.

Movie theatre operator Walter Eugene Tebetts convinced Weatherly to construct the Oriental Theatre adjacent to the Weatherly building. It was designed by Lee Thomas and Albert Mercier, who also designed many other movie palaces in the Pacific Northwest. The large and ornate theatre was the area's second largest, behind the Portland Theatre. It was torn down in 1970 to make way for a parking lot. The building and theatre cost $1.5 million.

Ownership and occupants

The Weatherly sold in 2002 to Mayfield Investment in Palo Alto, California for $7.4 million. It was previously owned by Landmark Investments, who owned it since 1984.

Tenants of the Weatherly have included Burns Bros. Inc., Kerr Violin Shop, Bank of America, Aqua Terra couples massage, Grand Jete Café, the Portland Running Company, Lensbaby, Stand for Children, Archscape Architecture.

References

[http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=14367 SkyscraperPage: Weatherly Building]
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Stout, Heidi J.. (February 21, 2002). "Historic Weatherly Building sells quickly". [[Portland Business Journal]].
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HacRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XOkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3874,438572&dq=weatherly+building&hl=en Cone Pioneer Dies in Portland] August 13, 1948 Eugene Register Guard
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Portland Bureau of Planning. (August 15, 1990). ["National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District"]({{NRHP url). National Park Service.
Potter, Elisabeth Walton. (1979). "Historic American Buildings Survey: The Oriental Theatre, HABS No. Ore-55".
Laura O. Foster [https://books.google.com/books?id=cSw2FC270nwC&dq=Weatherly+building&pg=PT134 Portland City Walks: Twenty Explorations in and Around Town]
Gary Lacher, Steve Stone [https://books.google.com/books?id=GJZkfYFRgdgC&dq=Lee+Thomas+Albert+Mercier&pg=PA57 Theatres of Portland], p. 58
[http://www.aquaterrapdx.com/location.htm Aqua Terra Massage, Location]
(November 10, 2008). "Real estate roundup". [[Portland Business Journal]].
Stout, Heidi J.. (March 21, 2003). "Family building renovated for a Grand retail future". [[Portland Business Journal]].

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