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George Warren Weatherly

Weatherly Building
Weatherly Building - Oriental Theatre - 1927 - Portland Oregon.jpg
Weatherly Building and Oriental Theatre on December 31, 1927, when the Weatherly was still under construction
Weatherly Building is located in Portland, Oregon
Weatherly Building
Location in Portland
Former names Crystal Ice & Storage Co. Office & Theatre building, The Weatherly
General information
Type Highrise
Architectural style Beaux-Arts, modern
Location Portland, Oregon
Address 516 SE Morrison Street
Current tenants Bank of America, Lensbaby
Construction started 1927
Completed 1928
Cost 1.5 million USD (including theatre)
Client George Warren Weatherly
Owner Mayfield Investment Company
Landlord Mayfield Investment
Height 53.34 metres (175.0 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 12
Floor area

82,000 square feet (7,600 m2)

Weatherly Building
Coordinates 45°31′1.2″N 122°39′37.37″W / 45.517000°N 122.6603806°W / 45.517000; -122.6603806Coordinates: 45°31′1.2″N 122°39′37.37″W / 45.517000°N 122.6603806°W / 45.517000; -122.6603806
Built 1928
Architect Sutton & Whitney.
Architectural style Modern Movement, Romanesque
Part of East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District (#91000126)
Designated CP March 4, 1991
Design and construction
Main contractor Robertson Hay & Wallace

82,000 square feet (7,600 m2)

The Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon, is a 12-story commercial office building. It was built in 1927–28 by ice cream businessman George Warren Weatherly.

According to a photograph dated December 21, 1927, held by the Library of Congress as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey collection (labeled "Stevens Commercial Photographers"), the building was designed by architects Sutton & Whitney and Lee Thomas, and was built by Robertson Hay & Wallace general contractors. It is listed as a secondary contributing property in the East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District.

Weatherly's creamery business started with a second-hand freezer in a small candy shop in 1890 and grew to produce an estimated 90% of Oregon ice cream sales. He was "locally credited" with inventing the ice cream cone and to have been the "east side's leading citizen in the 1920 and 1930s". The building helped develop the so-called "uptown district" and had an ice cream shop on its ground floor. An employee of Weatherly's, F. A. Bruckman, invented and patented the first successful cone manufacturing machine.

The Weatherly building has Romanesque brick and terra cotta embellishments, including an arcade of arches near the roof. It "was among the first high-rise buildings east of the river, with 12 stories towering over the Morrison Bridge." There are 3 elevators and two rooftop penthouses.

Movie theatre operator Walter Eugene Tebetts convinced Weatherly to construct the Oriental Theatre adjacent to the Weatherly building. It was designed by Lee Thomas and Albert Mercier, who also designed many other movie palaces in the Pacific Northwest. The large and ornate theatre was the area's second largest, behind the Portland Theatre. It was torn down in 1970 to make way for a parking lot. The building and theatre cost $1.5 million.


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