Morris Marks House

The Morris Marks House is a house located in southwest Portland, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3] It is located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood, just southwest of downtown Portland. Designed by Portland architect Warren Heywood Williams in an Italianate style, the house was built for Morris Marks, a Portland shoe merchant of Polish descent, in 1882.[4] It was originally located at S.W. 11th Avenue and Clay Street, but in the early 1900s was moved to 1501 S.W. Harrison Street, where it has remained ever since.[4]

Morris Marks House
Portland Historic Landmark[1]
The Marks House in 2013.
Location1501 SW Harrison Street
Portland, Oregon
Coordinates 45.513550°N 122.691551°W / 45.513550; -122.691551
Area0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built1882
ArchitectWarren Heywood Williams
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.75001596 [2]
Added to NRHPDecember 30, 1975

Prior to owning this house, Marks owned another house in Portland that was also designed by Warren Williams, also in an Italianate style, but was somewhat smaller.[4] It was built in 1880. That house, once located at 1134 S.W. 12th Avenue in downtown Portland, but cut in half and moved to a very small lot at S.W. Broadway and Grant in 2017,[5] has been vacant and boarded-up for several years, and is not listed on the National Register.[4]

See also
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Southwest Portland, Oregon

References
  1. Portland Historic Landmarks Commission (July 2010), Historic Landmarks -- Portland, Oregon (XLS), retrieved November 7, 2013.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  3. "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. June 6, 2011. p. 36. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
  4. Njus, Elliot (October 11, 2016) [online date October 10]. "Plan in works for preservation: The 136-year-old building, now vacant in downtown Portland, would be relocated and repurposed as apartments or offices". The Oregonian. p. A1. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  5. Graves, Mark (September 30, 2017). "137-year-old Morris Marks House crawls through downtown Portland". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
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