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Smart Tower Blocks - Portland
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Downtown: Animals in Pools
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    • Gypsystravels
  • By Gypsystravels on September 25, 2006
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    • Downtown - Portland
    by Gypsystravels
    Part of the Local Improvement District for the MAX light rail ten fountains with twenty-five bronze sculptures of Pacific Northwest animals were installed in 1986. They were designed by Georgia Gerber.

    Here are just a few I was able to photograph.

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    Downtown: First Congregational Church
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    • Geoff_Wright
  • Updated By Geoff_Wright on July 25, 2003
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    • First Congregational Church - Portland
    First Congregational
    Church
    by Geoff_Wright
    Don't you just love this beautiful stained glass window? Located in the South Park Blocks in downtown Portland on the corner of S.W. Park and Madison, First Congregational Church is a Portland Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The church is known for its Venetian Gothic architecture and the red-roofed bell tower that can be seen from many parts of the city.

    And, as for the glass, from my information it appears to be Povey Glass, designed and created by the famed Povey Brothers Art Glass Works, which operated in Portland from 1888 to 1929.

    If you require further information just call this number: 228-7219, Tuesday through Friday.

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    Downtown: Street Art
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  • Updated By Gypsystravels on August 24, 2006
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    • Seal Statue - Portland
    Seal Statue
    by Gypsystravels
    Located around City Hall are all these really quirky statues of animals. This particular series were of seals.

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    Downtown: Visitor's Center
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  • By mcpangie on April 16, 2005
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    • The Fountain - Portland
    The Fountain
    by mcpangie
    The Visitors' Center is below the Starbuck's... behind the fountain... in Pioneer Square. You will find all kinds of brochures, maps, bus and train schedules, and more. There is help available if you have questions.

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    Downtown: Beavers downtown? Well, this...
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  • By phildeni on August 24, 2002
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    • Downtown - Portland
    by phildeni
    Beavers downtown? Well, this is the 'Beaver State', and Portland is the 'Rose City'. If you look real closely you will be able to see some of our other 'wildlife' downtown.

    Spring is glorious . I miss it when I'm away.

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    Downtown: Powell's Books
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  • Updated By whowotwot on August 7, 2004
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    • Powell's Books downtown is by far my favorite thing about Portland. It's the largest independently owned bookstore in the country (it takes up an entire block!)

    It's so great to go into this huge bookstore to find a book (or several books) and sit down in the cafe and read with a cup of joe on a rainy Portland day. You can find any book imaginable new or used (and usually cheap)! You can find some really cool novelties as well.

    My favorite memories of Portland are in the cafe at Powell's reading a book, drinking a coffee on a rainy day. It's the only place where I like to be in the rain, and as anyone knows it rains a lot here.

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    Downtown: Blue Skies and Blue Buildings
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  • By Geoff_Wright on July 25, 2003
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    • Smart Tower Blocks - Portland
    Smart Tower Blocks
    by Geoff_Wright
    As I've already mentioned, there are many excellent buildings to see in Portland. These tower blocks caught my eye, and were photographed (with some difficulty) in the Jefferson/Columbia Streets area.

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    Downtown: Portland Building
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  • By yooperprof on March 21, 2004
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    • Not your grandfather's office block - Portland
    Not your grandfather's office
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    by yooperprof
    Michael Graves helped to define the Post-Modern moment in Architecture with this award-winning and rather eccentric design. It houses offices and bureaus for the city of Portland. (Post-modernism in building combines the vocabulary of classical architecture with the materials and forms of modernism. Post-modernists are reputed to be "ironic".) The Portland Building is certainly quirky, like the city it's in.

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    Downtown: Old City Hall
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  • By yooperprof on March 21, 2004
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    • carriage entrance - Portland
    carriage entrance
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    Neo-classical and restrained, the old City Hall contrasts dramatically with the Post-Modern Portland Building. The scale here is so much more appropriate to a walking city.

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    Downtown: The Pearl District
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  • By yooperprof on March 21, 2004
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    • a bit of the original Pearl - Portland
    a bit of the original Pearl
    by yooperprof
    The Pearl is one of those downtown industrial neighborhoods first "discovered" by artists and other creative folk, and later "colonized" by the aspirational middle classes for whom "urban" is not a dirty word. Unlike some other such "artist colonies" in American cities, the Pearl had not been completely yuppified, nor is it tragically hip - yet, anyway. Upscale condos alternate with hole-in-the-wall bars and functioning warehouses - for now. (Enjoy it while it lasts.)

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