Such a rare opportunity and this handful of dark crappy cell phone pics are all you take?

Thanks for sharing! What a great example of adaptive reuse! If you are interested in covering Portland's love affair with infill at all costs and the loss of great architecture check this story out:

http://www.oregonlive.com/front-porch/index.ssf/2014/02/historic_john_bridges_house_in.html

Ya, what the squirrel said.

Anyone remember the (gorgeous) Portland Stockyard Exchange building? (http://www.ccrh.org/comm/slough/images/Seb… )
TORN DOWN, to be replace by a sign in front of nondescript-cum-industrial blandness.

The Post Office in this article is just one among many notable buildings that once stood in Portland. But the attitude her is "It's (over 40 years) 'old' and therefore 'unsafe,' so we need to tear it down."

One of the differences between the US and Europe is that while Portland's 19th-early 20th century buildings are mostly gone, they still stand in Europe.

I cannot help but get angry about the location of the admissions office and what has already happened to that space. The remnants of the ceiling, now scaped clean, with holes for new electrical, even the arches are naked. It makes me sad for what could've been conserved... Adding salt to wounds is the fact that this building was given to the PNCA. I.E., it was free!!! Nay, it wasn't free, PNCA received 750K from the city so they are being paid to do this. I'm glad it's getting used for the next thirty years, but really, is it being protected? The way PDX city works sometimes makes me want to explode.