This lovely row of 1893 Queen Anne townhouses sits on NW Irving Street at NW 17th Avenue. The little streetside trees shown here in 1974 have matured into pretty large trees so the townhouses, also known as the Irving Street Brick Rowhouses, can be hard to see. You might get your best view during the winter months.
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This 1959 image looks north alongside the NW Broadway ramp to the Broadway Bridge. The ramp, bridge and train station look pretty much the same today. Those two gentlemen on the left would probably be inside the main post office building now.
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This four-story brick building served for about 80 more years after this photo was taken. It was occupied by a number of businesses over the years, including “Heywood Bro’s and Wakefield Co’s Wholesale Furniture” and United States Rubber Co., according to Sanborn maps. It was demolished in the late 1990s to make way for the 10th@Hoyt apartments. This 1917 view looks west on NW Irving from 9th Ave.
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Everything you see on the immediate south side of NW Irving Street in this 1959 view is gone now. The bus terminal sits on the site of the Mt. Hood Cafe and Yellow Cab garage buildings. The photo, looking east, was taken from the slightly elevated Broadway ramp.
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We get another view of the 1948 flood in this shot looking southeast through the Union Station parking lot. At the far end is the corner of NW 6th and Irving where a temporary dike has been built. Beyond the Boyd Hotel on the right is the better-remembered Hoyt Hotel. The only building in this picture left standing is the Hunt Transfer and Storage building on Glisan between 3rd and 4th. See another flood-related photo of this area in this earlier post.
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