Events

Explore historic and first City Park. Learn the history and visit some well known and not so well known parts of the park. Some up hill walking required to the the International Rose Test Gardens.

Stroll along the tree-lined streets of one of Portland's most beautiful residential neighborhoods, recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Learn about some of the oldest buildings in the city and the people who built them in this tour of Portland’s only National Historic Landmark District. The area also contains the highest concentration of cast-iron fronted buildings on the west coast and much of the iron was cast locally.

Explore the tree-lined streets and beautiful early 20th century architecture of this uniquely planned neighborhood.

Across the high plains and rugged mountain passes of the Oregon Trail came thousands of settlers seeking a new life, and for many, the burgeoning city of Eugene became their new home. The newcomers were fur traders and farmers, physicians and soldiers, teachers and hoteliers. Set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century’s great upheavals, this collection brings to life the intertwined destinies of pioneers, immigrants, and Native people in the Pacific Northwest. Drawing from archival photographs, letters, and public records, author C.J. Lake illuminates the human stories behind Oregon’s extraordinary everyday pioneers.
C.J. Lake is an educator and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. A Columbia University and
University of Oregon graduate, she brings a journalist’s curiosity and a teacher’s insight to her research on frontier life in nineteenth-century America. Visit www.dabadelic.com for more
information.

Learn about Portland's New Chinatown, Japantown, and a wealth of historic architecture including the landmark Union Station.

Learn about the history and culture of this district while viewing masterworks from some of the city's most notable 19th and 20th century architects.

Stroll through this fantastic North Portland neighborhood first developed by William Killingsworth in the early 20th century.

Walking tour of the South Portland Urban Renewal Area and the Halprin Open Space Sequence blocks.

Explore this mid-century suburban style development near Reed College.

Take a walk through a stunning neighborhood on the west side of Mt. Tabor Park.

As Portland’s elite built mansions ever higher on King’s Hill above booming downtown from the 1880s through the 1920s, they showed off not just their wealth but their great taste in the latest “modern” designs – hiring the area’s most notable architects. Through the strenuous efforts of preservation advocates starting in the 1970s, this treasure of gorgeous homes now survives in the King’s Hill National Register Historic District despite early losses to high-rise development. Every house has a “story” – of both rogues and heroes who shaped the city’s history. Learn about this area and how “the other half” once lived!

Stroll through the beautiful trees in some of the city's oldest parkland, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, all while learning about the rich architectural heritage of the neighborhood.

Explore some of the commercial and residential sections of this former streetcar suburb.

Portland’s myriad architectural styles are a showcase for dramatic and beautiful geological stories. From lava floods and volcanos to tropical seas and billions-of-years-old mountain building events, the geology of building stone has shaped 150 years of Portland’s architecture.
Paul Edison-Lahm, Communications Director for the Geological Society of the Oregon Country, will present this virtual tour.

Explore the "Main Street" of Portland's Central Eastside and learn about the area's rich history and fascinating variety of architecture.

Explore 70 years of architectural controversy and acclaim in downtown Portland.

Join Volga German historian Steve Schreiber and Professor of Architecture Tom Hubka as they guide you on a 2-mile walking tour highlighting some of the remaining churches and homes that tell the story of this ethnic group.

Learn about some of the oldest buildings in the city and the people who built them in this tour of Portland’s only National Historic Landmark District. The area also contains the highest concentration of cast-iron fronted buildings on the west coast and much of the iron was cast locally.

Explore this vibrant east side neighborhood noted for its landmark theater

See a variety of buildings types and styles in this one-time streetcar suburb on the east side of Mt. Tabor.

Explore this gem of a residential neighborhood tucked in between Sellwood, Milwaukie, and the Waverley Country Club.

Explore the tree-lined streets and beautiful early 20th century architecture of this uniquely planned neighborhood.

Mary B. Hansen has a passion for using archival documents to reveal hidden, lost and forgotten histories, and she will bring her knowledge and insights to Architectural Heritage Center. Mary will talk about her work as a Certified Archivist with an MLIS as well as about her two published books – The Traveling Archivist and Blood in the Archives – and how she uses archival research in writing her novels. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Free Event

Take a walk through a stunning neighborhood on the west side of Mt. Tabor Park.

Explore one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, situated on the edge of downtown.

In Search of Portland reveals the stories behind the built landscape, the people, and the history that have created modern Portland. Six excursions exploring Portland’s downtown, Old Town, and Pearl District not only focus on the city’s important landmarks and hidden gems but showcase an evolving city’s resilience and heart. Alongside his own experiences, Libby reveals how luminaries like Humphrey Bogart, Mark Rothko, Gus Van Sant, Vera Katz and Bill Walton appreciated the City of Roses. From Pioneer Courthouse Square to the Crystal Ballroom, each location in the book celebrates the spirit of place in addition to its architecture.
Free Event

Explore some of the commercial and residential sections of this former streetcar suburb.

A walking tour of Native American public art in downtown Portland will go from a Rick Bartow statue near Pioneer Courthouse to the Portland Building to several PSU buildings (including the Native American Student and Community Center, which is filled with Native art).

Like many Northeast Portland neighborhoods, Beaumont-Wilshire was carved from orchards, open fields, and patches of forest. As a young Portland sprawled across the river, the rural landscape of the eastside was replaced by a grid of neighborhoods, a busy streetcar system, and tens of thousands of new residents.

Using early maps, documents, photos, newspaper accounts, and memories he’s collected from past residents, local historian Doug Decker will explore the early years of of the Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood to examine connections between past, present, and future.