Description: Railway Palaces of Portland, Oregon, Oregon, Landmarks, Paperback In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision, he hired architects McKim, Mead & White to design a massive passenger station and a first-class hotel. Despite financial panics, lost fortunes and stalled construction, the Portland Hotel opened in 1890 and remained the social heart of the city for sixty years. While the original station was never built, Villard returned as a pivotal benefactor of Union Station, saving its iconic clock tower in the process. Author Alexander Benjamin Craghead tells the story of this Gilded Age patron and the architecture that helped shape the city's identity.
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781626193093
Book Title: Railway Palaces of Portland, Oregon : the Architectural Legacy of Henry Villard
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Alexander Benjamin Craghead
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Railroads / History, Regional, Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, WA)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Architecture, Transportation, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
