Portland, Oregon - Hotel Benson c.1912 postcard

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Hotel Benson, Portland, Oregon
• Publisher:  Benson Hotel - EC Kropp, Milaukee
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The Benson Hotel is a 287 room historic hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.^[1] It is owned and operated by Coast Hotels & Resorts. It was originally known as the New Oregon Hotel,^[2] and is commonly known as "The Benson". It has a reputation as one of Portland's finest hotels. The hotel is named after notable businessman and philanthropist Simon Benson.

Simon Benson had wished to build a world-class hotel in Portland. During the population boom that occurred between the 1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition and the Great Depression, Benson fulfilled his wish.

The firm of Doyle, Patterson, and Beach designed the main hotel building in French Second Empire style. The hotel opened 1912 and Chicago's Blackstone Hotel served as the inspiration of the building's overall design.^[2] The building was originally an annex to the Oregon Hotel, and was known as the New Oregon Hotel.

In 1959, the old Oregon Hotel next door was demolished to, ironically, make way for a 175 room annex to the 1912 building. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986