Marquam Building
in Portland, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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635 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204, USA Print route »
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This article is about the demolished Marquam Building formerly at the corner of SW 6th Avenue and Morrison Street in Portland, Oregon, not the Marquam Building at 2501 SW 1st Avenue. The demolished building was replaced by the American Bank Building.The Marquam Building was an eight-story, Romanesque Revival office building in Portland, Oregon, United States. Named for Philip Augustus Marquam, the building has been called Portland's first skyscraper and first modern office building. The building resembled a structure designed by Seattle architect John Parkinson and Pennsylvania architect John B. Hamme as an entry in the Portland Chamber of Commerce design competition of 1890.
