Morris Marks House

Morris Marks House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Portland Historic Landmark[2]
The Marks House in 2013.
Location	1501 SW Harrison Street Portland, Oregon
Coordinates	45°30′49″N 122°41′30″W / 45.513550°N 122.691551°W / 45.513550; -122.691551
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1882
Architect	Warren Heywood Williams
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	75001596 [1]
Added to NRHP	December 30, 1975

The Morris Marks House is a house located in southwest Portland, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3] It is located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood, just southwest of downtown Portland. Designed by Portland architect Warren Heywood Williams in an Italianate style, the house was built for Morris Marks, a Portland shoe merchant of Polish descent, in 1882.^[4] It was originally located at S.W. 11th Avenue and Clay Street, but in the early 1900s was moved to 1501 S.W. Harrison Street, where it has remained ever since.^[4]

Prior to owning this house, Marks owned another house in Portland that was also designed by Warren Williams, also in an Italianate style, but was somewhat smaller.^[4] It was built in 1880. That house, once located at 1134 S.W. 12th Avenue in downtown Portland, but cut in half and moved to a very small lot at S.W. Broadway and Grant in 2017,^[5] has been vacant and boarded-up for several years, and is not listed on the National Register.^[4]

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. ^ Portland Historic Landmarks Commission (July 2010), Historic Landmarks -- Portland, Oregon (XLS), retrieved November 7, 2013.
3. ^ "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. June 6, 2011. p. 36. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 25, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Njus, Elliot (October 11, 2016) [online date October 10]. "Plan in works for preservation: The 136-year-old building, now vacant in downtown Portland, would be relocated and repurposed as apartments or offices". The Oregonian. p. A1. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
5. ^ Graves, Mark (September 30, 2017). "137-year-old Morris Marks House crawls through downtown Portland". OregonLive.com. Retrieved October 2, 2017.

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