Their design received an "Architectural Design Citation" from Progressive Architecture magazine in 1981. The Portland team, an interdisciplinary "group of rabble-raising architects, writers, and an artist" consisting of chief designer and architect Willard Martin, landscape architect Douglas Macy, sculptor Lee Kelly, sculptor, historian Terrence O’Donnell, graphic artist Robert Reynolds, and writer Spencer Gill, were chosen as the winners by the City Council in May 1980. Out of 162 submissions, five finalists were chosen, from firms based in New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco/ Los Angeles, Boston, and Portland. īy early 1980, a design competition was announced, seeking proposals for what was to become Pioneer Courthouse Square. In 1975, Mayor Neil Goldschmidt began negotiating with local department store Meier & Frank to obtain the property for the city, and eventually convinced the store to sell the land to the city after its parking concerns were alleviated. In the early 1970s, a comprehensive downtown plan proposed that the site become dedicated public space. Civic squareĪn 800-car parking garage was proposed to the Portland Planning Commission in January 1969, but the commission rejected the idea, instead calling for a public plaza. In 1951, the hotel was torn down and a two-story parking lot was built. The hotel was the center of the city's social activity for the first half of the 20th century. Local leaders re-organized the project in 1888 and contacted Widden, who came west and partnered with Ion Lewis to complete the job in 1890. Villard's financial reverses forced him to withdraw. Whidden to design the hotel, rising six stories to an attic with elaborate dormers, in an H-shaped plan with its main gated courtyard facing the Pioneer Courthouse, the landmark 1875 federal building directly to the east. Villard hired the firm of McKim, Mead & White and its employee William M. Marquam contributed to the project by buying the school, clearing the site, moving the school to SW 6th and Alder, re-fitting it, and giving it back to the school district. In 1884 investor Henry Villard came to Portland, looking for business support for a railroad hotel associated with his newly acquired Northern Pacific Railway. The district financed its construction at Sixth and Morrison by suspending school operations for a year. The city has owned the block since 1856, when Portland bought land that included the site, as the location for its Central School. The square's surface is made up of bricks inscribed with the names of residents whose $15 donations in 1981–1982 helped fund its construction.
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