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authorized the landscaping of
these blocks, landscape designer
Louis G. Pfunder planted 104
Lombardy poplars and elms
between Salmon and Hall. The
so-called South Park Blocks
continue to form a 12-block
ribbon of tree-shaded lawns
through the central city, running
past the Portland Art Museum
and Portland’5 Centers for
the Arts (see p65) and into
the campus of Portland State
University. In this city forested
Portland Art Museum’s gallery of late 19th-century European art by so many evergreens, the
blocks of deciduous trees are
8 Portland 9 The Old Church refreshingly pleasant in the fall,
Art Museum 1422 SW 11th Ave. Map 3 A1. when the foliage turns vibrant
1219 SW Park Ave. Map 3 B1. Tel (503) 222-2031. v to SW Clay St. colors. Particularly vivid is the
area around Madison Street,
Tel (503) 226-2811.  Library/SW 9th Open 11am–3pm Tue–Fri. where the First Congregational
8 self-guided. ∑ oldchurch.org
Ave (red, blue lines). v to Jeffer son St. Church rises above the trees.
Open 10am–5pm Tue, Wed & Sat, Built in 1882, this church reflects Notable statuary along the
10am–8pm Thu & Fri, noon–5pm Sun.
Closed major hols. & 7 - = a Victorian Gothic Revival style, blocks includes, between
∑ portlandartmuseum.org also known as Stick or Carpenter Madison and Main Streets,
Gothic style, with exaggerated a dour-looking US president
The oldest art museum in the arches, a tall steeple, and sleek Abraham Lincoln (1861–5) by
Pacific Northwest opened in windows. The rough-hewn wood George Fite Waters, who was
1892, introducing the citizenry exterior lends it a distinctly a student of Rodin. One block
to classical art with a collection Pacific Northwestern flavor. On south is the 18-ft- (5.5-m-) tall
of plaster casts of Greek and Wednesdays at noon, the original bronze equestrian Rough Rider,
Roman sculpture. Today, the Hook and Hastings pipe organ is a statue of President Theodore
42,000-piece-strong collection, put into service for free concerts. Roosevelt (1901–9), by his friend
which places the museum and hunting partner Alexander
among the 25 largest in the Phimister Proctor.
country, is housed in a building Among the most distinctive
designed by modernist ornaments are the Benson
architect Pietro Belluschi. In drinking fountains. In 1917,
2005, the North Building was lumber baron Samuel Benson
extensively renovated in order commissioned prominent archi-
to house the Center for Modern tect A. E. Doyle to design these
and Contemporary Art. graceful, four-bowled fountains.
A sizable collection of He placed 20 of them through-
European paintings, including out the South Park Blocks and
works by Van Gogh, Picasso, the rest of downtown to quench
Italian Renaissance masters, the thirst of residents who might
and French Impressionists, otherwise be tempted to visit
hang in the galleries. Works saloons. Since then, 20 more
by Rodin and Brancusi fill the fountains have been added.
sculpture court; further galleries
house works by Frank Stella and The Gothic Revival-style Old Church, with
Willem de Kooning; and there an intricately detailed wood exterior
is a wing devoted to historical
and contemporary photo- 0 South Park Blocks
graphs, prints, sculptures, and
drawings by artists from the Bounded by SW Salmon St & I-405, SW
region. The Grand Ronde Park & SW 9th Aves. Map 3 B1. v to
Center for Native American stops between SW Salmon & SW Mill Sts.
Art displays masks, jewelry,
totem poles, and works by In 1852, frontier businessman
artists from 200 North and legislator Daniel Lownsdale
American indigenous groups. set aside the blocks between
The museum is an important Park and 9th Avenues as Offerings at the Saturday farmers’ market,
stop for traveling exhibitions. parkland. After the city council South Park Blocks
For hotels and restaurants see p286 and pp294–6

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