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Historic Resources
Greater Portland Plan (not digital) - 1912; $5.00
Growing Better - 1991; $4.50 (PDF Document, 4,895kb)
How Do We Know It Is Us Without Our Past? - 1974 (Out of print) (PDF Document, 11,780kb)
Picture This (not digital) - 1993; $5.00
Portland Planning Commission: An Historical Overview - 1979; $5.00 (PDF Document, 14,854kb)
The Portland Planning Commission: an Historical Overview - 1979 (PDF Document, 5,055kb)


Rules and Benefits (view all)


Research Guides and Bibliographies (view all)
- Bibliography of American Architecture, Architectural History & Historic Preservation (PDF Document, 817kb)
- Bibliography of Architecture, Architectural History & Historic Preservation in Portland & Oregon (PDF Document, 670kb)
- Bibliography of Native Peoples & Archaeology of the Portland Area & Lower Columbia Region (PDF Document, 739kb)
- Bibliography of Portland & Oregon History (PDF Document, 2,780kb)
- Bibliography of Portland and Oregon African-American History (PDF Document, 271kb)
- Bibliography of Portland and Oregon Chinese-American and Japanese-American History (PDF Document, 198kb)
- Bibliography of Portland and Oregon Women’s History (PDF Document, 273kb)
- Bibliography of Preservation, Restoration & Rehabilitation of Historic Structures (PDF Document, 841kb)
- Historic Resources Inventory (CAUTION) (Excel Document, 6,334kb)
- Historic Resources Inventory Architectural Style Guide (PDF Document, 10,818kb)
- Historic Resources Inventory Bulding Type Guide (PDF Document, 3,096kb)
- Historic Resources Inventory Chronological Index--Year Built (PDF Document, 3,571kb)
- History of Zoning in Portland, 1918-1958 (PDF Document, 2,719kb)
- List of Portland Historic Landmarks (Excel Document, 201kb)
- List of Portland Sanborn Maps (PDF Document, 3,202kb)
- List of Portland Street Name Changes (Excel File, PDOT) (Excel Document, 1,091kb)
- Researching Your Historic Property (PDF Document, 1,169kb)


Project Reports and Documents

Skidmore/Old Town National Historic Landmark Nomination Update (view all)
- District Resource Maps (PDF Document, 1,633kb)
- Draft Revised Nomination (April 2008) (PDF Document, 829kb)
- List of Images (PDF Document, 29kb)
- List of Maps (PDF Document, 25kb)
- Revised Nomination (October 2008) (PDF Document, 852kb)

Review of Changes to Residential Historic Special Assessment

Miscellaneous Documents (view all)
- Centennial Mill Historic Preservation Assessment (March 2006) (PDF Document, 810kb)
- Historic Context: Hawthorne Blvd from SE 20th to SE 55th Avenues (PDF Document, 1,509kb)
- Historic Districts in the Albina Community
- History of Centennial Mill Poster (PDF Document, 2,955kb)
- History of the Albina Plan Area
- How Do We Know It Is Us Without Our Past? - 1974 (PDF Document, 11,775kb)
- Midtown Blocks Historic Assessment
- Portland Civic Planning, Development and Public Works Historic Context Report (PDF Document, 7,630kb)
- Portland Planning Commission: An Historical Overview
- Portland Structures: Year-Built Data Summary (PDF Document, 25kb)
- Review of Changes to Special Assessment Program (PDF Document, 128kb)

East Portland Historical Overview and Historic Preservation Study (view all)


Historic District Design Guidelines (view all)


Maps

Reference and Miscellaneous Maps (view all)

Historical Maps (view all)
- "Plan of Portland," Pettygrove and Stark proprieters, c. 1845? (PDF Document, 713kb)
- “Lownsdale’s Map” of Portland with features from c. 1845-52 (PDF Document, 311kb)
- Aerial Photo of Downtown and Inner Neighborhoods, 1955 (PDF Document, 9,694kb)
- Age of Downtown Buildings, 1932 (PDF Document, 662kb)
- General Land Office Cadastral Map TS 1N1E, 1852 (PDF Document, 1,908kb)
- General Land Office Cadastral Map TS 1S1E, 1852 (PDF Document, 2,460kb)
- Official Map of the City of Portland, 1866 (PDF Document, 1,129kb)
- Portland Industrial Districts, 1928 (PDF Document, 853kb)
- Portland Paving Map, 1894 (PDF Document, 4,105kb)
- Portland Plat Map, c. 1906 (PDF Document, 2,828kb)
- Portland Traction Co. Streetcar and Coach Map, c.1943 (PDF Document, 21,444kb)
- Survey of Portland, recorded 1852 (PDF Document, 494kb)
- Westside Waterfront, 1923 (PDF Document, 635kb)

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