Thu Oct 8, 2015, 11:59 AM
Tom Kitten (7,079 posts)
The Portland Gasco Building, to be demolished by Halloween
This is Portland's most famous vacant building, the office and admin building for Portland Gas & Coke, the forerunner to NW Natural Gas. Since 1957 it's just sat here, vacant, ever since, but last month the gas company says it costs too much to maintain even the way it is, it so they're tearing it down.
Which is a shame, it's a beautiful Gothic Victorian built around 1912 or so. It's hard to get a good view for photography, the public isn't allowed to get near it. It's surrounded by private roads and gas tanks and other heavy industry operations, plus the whole area is a Superfund site. I went there at 1:30 pm and it was already in shadows, I had to do some post processing to get a reasonable view of it. Most pictures turned out dark like this 
Post process 
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Author | Time | Post |
 The Portland Gasco Building, to be demolished by Halloween (Original post) |
Tom Kitten | Oct 2015 | OP |
| CaliforniaPeggy | Oct 2015 | #1 | |
| alfredo | Oct 2015 | #2 | |
| liberal N proud | Oct 2015 | #3 | |
| Earth_First | Oct 2015 | #4 | |
| Solly Mack | Oct 2015 | #5 | |
| Blue_In_AK | Oct 2015 | #6 |
Response to Tom Kitten (Original post)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 12:20 PM
CaliforniaPeggy (144,961 posts)
1. How sad that they're going to tear it down, my dear Tom Kitten...
Response to Tom Kitten (Original post)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:31 PM
alfredo (59,806 posts)
2. Soon other buildings built to service the fossil fuel industry will be abandoned.
Response to Tom Kitten (Original post)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 08:42 PM
liberal N proud (59,659 posts)
3. That is a great piece of architecture - what a shame
Response to Tom Kitten (Original post)
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 08:08 AM
4. I wish there was a better option for these buildings...
