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Industrial History

A Preservation Perspective on Portland’s Gas & Coke Building

December 11, 2013April 16, 2021 Restore OregonNews

In late October, Northwest Natural announced plans to demolish the venerable Gas & Coke Building, a century-old poured-in-place concrete building located just upriver from the St. Johns Bridge at 7900 NW St Helens Road. The 1913 building—a former gas manufacturing plant—has been the subject of ghost stories, speculative histories, and general intrigue since it was […]

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