Wells Fargo Building

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name = Wells Fargo Building
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caption = The Wells Fargo Building of Portland.
location = Portland, Oregon
nearest_city =
lat_degrees = 45
lat_minutes = 31
lat_seconds = 17
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 122
long_minutes = 40
long_seconds = 39
long_direction = W
area =
built = 1907
architect = Benjamin Wistar Morris III
architecture = Renaissance
added = 1986
visitation_num =
visitation_year =
refnum=86002839cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
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governing_body =Private

"This structure is not to be confused with the Wells Fargo Center (Portland, Oregon), the current tallest building in Portland."

The Wells Fargo Building is an historic office building in downtown Portland, Oregon. Since 1986, it has been on the National Register of Historic Places. [ cite web
url = http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OR/Multnomah/state11.html
title = National Register of Historic Places: Multnomah County, Oregon, pg. 11
accessdate = 2007-07-28 ]

Completed in 1907, it is the first steel-framed building in Portland, and is considered the city's first true skyscraper. At 12 stories, it was the tallest building in Portland at the time. [ cite web
url = http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=wellsfargobuilding-portland-or-usa
title = Emporis: Wells Fargo Building
accessdate = 2007-07-28 ]

The large doorstep at the building's entryway required the largest slab of granite ever shipped to Portland at the time. [King, Bart: An Architectural Guidebook to Portland, pg. 25. Gibbs Smith, 2001]

References

ee also

*Architecture in Portland, Oregon
*List of Registered Historic Places in Multnomah County, Oregon

External links

* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=wellsfargobuilding-portland-or-usa Wells Fargo Building (Emporis)]
* [http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2007/11/19/focus2.html?b=1195448400^1552062 Portland Business Journal: Portland's first skyscraper passes the century mark]

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before=Unknown
title=Tallest Building in Portland
years=1907—1911 56m
after=Yeon Building