Lents School, circa 1911. According to the 1911 Polk Directory, the school was located on N Main (92nd) and the southeast corner of Gilbert (Harold) in Lents.
City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2004-002.3657.
Lents School, circa 1911
Vintage Portland
Lents School, circa 1911. According to the 1911 Polk Directory, the school was located on N Main (92nd) and the southeast corner of Gilbert (Harold) in Lents.
City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2004-002.3657.
And here’s an arial view of the school from 1948 looking north from Foster:
I encourage VP readers to follow the link in “Related” (above) to “Lents Neighborhood 1948” for a very nice conversation about the neighborhood, especially the comment by Carolyn Rosenow about the teachers in the school.
The Wattles Boys and Girls Club now sits on the property:
Uninsulated wooden balloon framed firetrap. I’ll send my kids to school there.
cool building its should have been saved ! as a hitoric land mark lents sucks now
they destroyed old Lents with all them new apartment buildings i watch as portland mercilessly demolished the new copper penny restaurant !