A bird’s eye view of SW 5th Avenue and the surrounding area, including the Portland Hotel and Pioneer Courthouse. This image comes from the souvenir picture book, Portland, Oregon, the Rose City, 1915. The book dubs this image “The Heart of the City.”
City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2004-002.1437.
Pioneer Courthouse looking west on the corner of SW Yamhill Street and SW 5th Avenue, 1898.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2004-002.3588
SW 6th Avenue and SW Morrison Street, looking south, circa 1939.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2005-001.917
An aerial of downtown Portland, 1933. The Pioneer Courthouse is circled in the lower left corner. Behind the courthouse is the Portland Hotel.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2010-019.570
The exterior of Pioneer Courthouse from the corner of SW 5th Avenue and SW Morrison Street, 1933.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2010-019.569
Interesting perspective in this photo looking straight down on SW Broadway as it cuts through the heart of downtown in 1960 (south is up). The parking lot just left of center will become Pioneer Courthouse Square a quarter-century later. Very few blocks have escaped change in the last 50 years.
(City of Portland Archives)
Portland appeared to be a busy, progressive and prosperous city in this 1907 street scene looking west on SW Morrison at 5th Avenue. Pioneer Courthouse is on the immediate left and the Portland Hotel, site of today’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, looms in the distance beyond that. Meier & Frank would build their flagship store on the block to the immediate right.
(City of Portland Archives)
Vintage Portland 