2024 Update: Jantzen Beach Carousel’s Progress at the National Neon Sign Museum By: Simon Benko, National Neon Sign Museum The jolly bellows of laughter – the stampeding echoes of hooves – holiday cheer for all – Is it Santa Claus? NEIGH! It’s the sound of Jantzen Beach Carousel horses traveling to the National Neon Sign […]
Jantzen Beach Carousel exhibit has reopened!
The Jantzen Beach Carousel exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society reopens! After a lengthy building repair process, the Jantzen Beach Carousel exhibit, at the Oregon Historical Society has reopened. The Odyssey of the Historic Jantzen Beach Carousel: From Leavenworth, Kansas, to Portland, Oregon, 1921–2022 exhibit will run through September 24, 2023.
The Jantzen Beach Carousel Ready for Next Phase
Bring the Jantzen Beach Carousel to Your Community Learn more about this opportunity. Restore Oregon seeks visionary new owner to carry turn-key restoration project through completion With preservation planning nearly complete, Restore Oregon, Oregon’s only statewide nonprofit historic preservation organization, is reactivating their search for a visionary entity or community with resources adequate to both assume ownership of […]
Arthur’s Restoration Journey: A Preservation Planning & Testing Case Study
The Jantzen Beach Carousel has provided Restore Oregon with a unique opportunity to demonstrate how the process of historic preservation planning works, and why it is so vital to any preservation project, be that preservation of an object (like the carousel), a landscape, a structure, or a building. Our team spent the pandemic testing repair […]