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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:1000-1038 SW Stark St historic name:Clyde Hotel
Portland, Multnomah County (97205) current/other names:Rainbow Art Gallery; Scandals; Scandals Lounge; CC Slaughters Restaurant and Lounge; Other Side Café Bar; Ace Hotel
assoc addresses:1022 SW Stark St; 1038 SW Stark St; 403 SW 10th Ave; 1000-1038 SW Harvey Milk St
block/lot/tax lot:254 / 1-8 / 4900
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:1N 1E 34 SW/SW
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):4.0 total elig resources:1 total inelig resources:
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:1912 second date: date indiv listed:01/21/1994
primary orig use: Hotel orig use comments:
second orig use: COMMERCIAL: General
primary style: Commercial (Type) prim style comments:
secondary style: sec style comments:
primary siding: Brick:Other/Undefined siding comments:
secondary siding: Terra Cotta: Other/Undefined
plan type: architect:Macnaughton & Raymond
builder:
comments/notes:
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Survey/Grouping Included In: Type of Grouping Date Listed Date Compiled
   Portland LGBTQ+ Historic Resources 2024 RLS Survey & Inventory Project 2024
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 01/21/1994
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date: 05/18/2023
Special Assessment
Status Term End Yr
Closed 1st  2009
Federal Tax Program
Status Start Compl
Complete 10/01/2005  2007
106 Project(s): None
ARCHITECTURAL / PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
1000-1038 SW Harvey Milk Street is a four-story 20th Century Commercial style brick building. The lower section of the building features wood storefront windows and wood doors with glass on the west, north, and east elevations. A large central entry on SW Harvey Milk Street features double doors and side lights, topped by a large metal canopy and a large neon sign above the canopy. Most of the upper floor windows of the building are wood double-hung windows; some are metal frame. There is one fire escape stair located on the SW 11th Avenue facade. There is brick relief around the fourth floor elevations and the building is topped with a large metal cornice.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The Clyde Hotel housed multiple LGBTQ+ businesses between 1979 and 2005. The Rainbow Art Gallery opened at this location in 1979, followed by LGBTQ+ bar and restaurant Scandals in 1985. Scandals may have been Portland’s first LGBTQ+ bar to have unblocked ground-floor picture windows allowing passersby to see inside. Advertisements in the local LGBTQ+ newspaper Just Out noted Scandals as “serving the gay community exclusively” as the bar hosted various block parties, pride events, and more through the late 20th century. Owner Greg Dugger contributed to the area more broadly by starting a Stark Street business owners’ group in 1987. In the early 2000s, Scandals briefly became Scandals Lounge and Scandals Other Side Café before closing for building renovations to transform the Clyde Hotel into to the Ace Hotel in September 2005. Scandals relocated to 1125 SW Stark Street (currently SW Harvey Milk Street) in 2006. The building also was the first location of LGBTQ+ bar C.C. Slaughters between 1981 and 1998. Opened by John Adams, C.C. Slaughters was the city's first gay country/western bar. Individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C, the Clyde Hotel is also locally significant under Criterion A in the area of LGBTQ+ history for its association with Scandals and C.C. Slaughters.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
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
Local Library: University Library:
Historical Society:Oregon Queer History Collective Other Respository:
Bibliography:
“Ad.” City Week, February 1986, 5. “Ad.” City Week, June 1987. “Welcome to the New Scandals.” Just Out, February 17, 2006, 8. “About.” Scandals. http://www.scandalspdx.com/aboutscandals. Sorensen, Inga. “Impact Zones.” Just Out, February 3, 1995, 11. Dougher, Sarah. “Scandals to Stay Put until Sept. 1.” Just Out, June 3, 2005, 13. Kohl, Dave. “Traipsing the Triangle.” Just Out, November 18, 2005, 26. Hector, Alley. “Stark Raving Proud.” Just Out, May 29, 2009, 49. Prado, Ryan. "30 Years of XXX: CC Slaughters rings in anniversary all summer long." Just Out, May 6, 2011, 41.