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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:
Sunset Hwy
historic name:
Sunset Tunnel #2552
Portland, Washington County
current/other names:
Dennis L. Edwards Tunnel
assoc addresses:
US 26
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr:
mp 40.90
twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:
structure
height (stories):
total elig resources:
total inelig resources:
elig evaluation:
eligible/contributing
NR Status:
prim constr date:
1941
second date:
date indiv listed:
primary orig use:
Road Related (vehicular)
orig use comments:
Tunnel
second orig use:
primary style:
prim style comments:
secondary style:
sec style comments:
primary siding:
siding comments:
secondary siding:
plan type:
architect:
builder:
comments/notes:
Tunnel renamed in 2002 after Dennis L. Edwards, Oregon Department of Transportation, died when part of the tunnel collapsed.
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Survey/Grouping Included In:
Type of Grouping
Date Listed
Date Compiled
Oregon Highway Tunnels
Thematic Grouping
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed:
N/A
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date:
106 Project(s)
SHPO Case
Date
Agency Effect Eval
10/18/2002
Special Assess Project(s):
None
Federal Tax Project(s):
None
ARCHITECTURAL / PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
Refer to scanned documents links.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
Refer to scanned documents links.
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:
Other Respository:
Bibliography: