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address: historic name:Portland New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District
Portland, Multnomah County current/other names:
assoc addresses:
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr:[District] twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:1N 1E 34
resource type:District height (stories): total elig resources:29 total inelig resources:18
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:1880 second date:1943 date indiv listed:11/21/1989
primary orig use: Other orig use comments:
second orig use:
primary style: Victorian Era: Other prim style comments:
secondary style: Modern Period: Other sec style comments:
primary siding: siding comments:
secondary siding:
plan type: architect:Varied
builder:Varied
comments/notes:
Additional Documentation for Property #20, 102-112 NW 4th Ave approved 10/06/2010 District includes 45 buildings and 2 features for a total of 47. There are 5 vacant lots which are not listed in the database. There are 30 EC resources and 17 NC resources. Nomination is unclear about classification of buildings, and non-contributing and non-historic resources are particularly lacking in information District overlaps with the Portland Skidmore/Old Town Historic District. They share the following 10 buildings: 1-3 NW 3rd 7-9 NW 3rd 11-17 NW 3rd 21 NW 3rd 103-105 NW 3rd 107 NW 3rd 127 NW 3rd 203 NS 3rd 211 NW 3rd 315 NW Davis In 1994, 310 NW 5th Ave was changed from NC to EC.
Survey/Grouping Included In: Type of Grouping Date Listed Date Compiled
   Portland New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District Listed Historic District 11/21/1989
NR date listed: 11/21/1989
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date:
106 Project(s): None
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
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(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
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Title Records Census Records Property Tax Records Local Histories
Sanborn Maps Biographical Sources SHPO Files Interviews
Obituaries Newspapers State Archives Historic Photographs
City Directories Building Permits State Library
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