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Architectural Heritage Center

The Architectural Heritage Center connects people and place, past and future. Each year we organize public programs, walking tours, and gallery exhibitions on a wide variety of topics related to Portland’s built environment. The Architectural Heritage Center is owned and operated by the Bosco-Milligan Foundation.

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TOURING THE CENTRAL EASTSIDE: a guide the neighborhood around the AHC

WALKING TOURS: Explore Portland neighborhoods on foot.

RESOURCE GUIDE: Find local resources for renovating vintage homes and spaces.

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Demolition of Yamaguchi Hotel

The historic Yamaguchi Hotel, located at the corner of NW 4th and Glisan and currently owned by Blanchet House, is set to be demolished. We knew the building was going to be demolished, but we [...]

Urban Lives, Old Spaces: Mid-century Modest to Millennial Modern

Urban Lives, Old Spaces is a blog series that chronicles the shifting lives of historic spaces and how the built environment connects with contemporary issues in our lives. Featuring a different space in each blog, [...]

Can Parkway Manor Apartments be saved?

Parkway Manor Apartments/Residence Hall is one of the few significant historic buildings remaining on the PSU campus. For almost a century it has been a valuable neighbor contributing to the defining character of the [...]

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We honor the tribes whose longhouses were in what is now Portland: the Chinook bands of Multnomah, Clackamas, and the Cascade/Watlala and the Kalapuya band of Tualatin. We also honor the nearby tribes who traded here–in the Willamette Valley: the Kalapuya, the Molalla, and the Chinook-speaking Clowwewalla/Tumwater; and many tribes along the Columbia River including: the Cowlitz, and the Chinook bands of the Wasco, Chinook, and the Kathlamet.