This Victorian Italianate house was on the north side of SW Market Street between SW 11th and 12th Avenues. This building, and the wood frame buildings behind and to its right, are no longer in existence; the site is a parking lot. The brick apartment house in the left background is still standing.
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Vintage Portland 
When was this torn down? There were a number of old houses around PSU around the time I started college in the fall of 1967. I think this was one of them.
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I think old buildings are many times more beautiful than a shiny brand new one. There’s something about something with a past that is just amazing.
This house was probably built in the mid-1870’s when the Italianate style was
in its heyday in Portland. The house and surrounding frame residences were probably demolished in the mid-1960s when the nearby I-405 and Sunset Highway connectors were built.
There was an “urban renewal” fervor at that time that determined anything old was useless, and only new and modern was good. This house stood for nearly 90 years; much longer than many fancier and newer houses built in Northwest Portland.
If it’s the house I’m thinking it is (in the top “row”, third block from the left, little house next to the one in the lower right-hand-corner), the house seems to be in this 1955 map: https://www.flickr.com/photos/41894180030@N01/14638681004
but be gone in this 1966 map: https://www.flickr.com/photos/41894180030@N01/14454299449
There were so many great old houses around PSU in the late 60’s. Too bad that so many no longer exist.