NW Hoyt Street was paved with Belgian blocks when this 1917 image was taken. You can still find a few streets in the area paved with these natural stones but Hoyt is all asphalt now. A couple of buildings are still with us in this view to the west looking through the intersection at 11th Avenue.
(City of Portland Archives)
The western-most North Bank Freight Depot building on the northwest corner of NW Hoyt & 11th is shown in the 1917 photo. The building (and its sister across the street) is still with us, a fine luxury condo building in the Pearl District. The remnants of that sign on the end of the building can still be seen.
(City of Portland Archives)
Sandbags formed a temporary dike to try to control water during the 1948 flood. This view looks southeast along the railroad tracks at Union Station from about NW Hoyt & 3rd Avenue. The partial building at far right was attached to the back of the extant fire station on Glisan and the ramp in the background leads to the Steel Bridge. You can see an aerial view of this area during the same flood in this earlier Vintage Portland post.
(City of Portland Archives)
This is a companion piece to this post from a couple months ago. Move across to the east side of NW Broadway and look north from NW Hoyt Street and this is your view. You would have been standing with your back to the Hoyt Hotel. Union Station is off to the right.
(City of Portland Archives)
Tanner Creek sewer construction made a muddy mess of NW 11th Avenue at Hoyt Street in 1917. The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway North Bank Station passenger and freight depot buildings north of Hoyt are still there, converted to residential units in the 1990s.
(City of Portland Archives)
The legendary Hoyt Hotel at NW 6th and Hoyt had this annex directly to the south. This 1967 photo shows some nice detail of the ornate annex. This view is northwest, NW 6th and Glisan is just off screen to the right. The hotel closed in 1972 and was demolished in 1977 to make way for a bus terminal which was eventually built a block away. The hotel lot is still empty today.
(University of Oregon Libraries)
This is a gorgeous aerial view of the rail yards and train depots in Northwest Portland in 1939, long before it was transformed into the Pearl District. NW 11th and Hoyt is in the lower right corner (see a 1917 street level view down Hoyt here). The Lovejoy ramp (left) meets the Broadway Bridge (top center) and the Broadway ramp in front of Union Station.
(City of Portland Archives)
