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Another of the dingy landmarks I’ve been passing by since I moved here came down in the past few weeks. <\/p>\n \n\t\t

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I was walking by 218 SW Jefferson and noticed I could see light inside and the rafters were exposed.<\/p>\n \n\t\t

\n\t\t\t \t\n \"brc05\"\n\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n \n

Circling the block told the rest of the story. <\/p>\n \n\t\t

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Over a century old, it was at one point used by the Pendleton Woolen Mills company. The company still has a sizeable presence<\/a> in Oregon with administrative and woolen mill facilities in the state, and even a bit of manufacturing capability<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\t\t

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It’s of simple design, but I always thought it had a minimalistic appeal. I’m certain it was seismically unsafe though, which is proving to be the kiss of death for many of Portland’s more humble historic properties.<\/p>\n \n\t\t

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Meanwhile across the river, the burned out hulk of the Taylor Electric Company building at 240 SE Clay seems to be getting a new lease on life. From the look of the renders<\/a> of the project at least part of the original structure will be retained as a barrier around the parking lot for the new complex and possibly as part of the structure for the new building on the site. Seems to be a popular option for making use of some of the old bones of industrial buildings around the city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another of the dingy landmarks I’ve been passing by since I moved here came down in the past few weeks. I was walking by 218 SW Jefferson and noticed I could see light inside and the rafters were exposed. Circling … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[11,36],"tags":[238,239,15,240,241,38,244,23,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}