Park Heathman Hotel
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Heathman Hotel
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The Park Heathman Hotel, also known as the Heathman Hotel and the Park Haviland Hotel, currently the Park Tower Apartments
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| Location | 723 SW Salmon Street, Portland, Oregon |
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| Coordinates | 45°31′03″N 122°40′53″W / 45.517638°N 122.681338°WCoordinates: 45°31′03″N 122°40′53″W / 45.517638°N 122.681338°W |
| Area | 100ft by 100ft |
| Built | 1926 |
| Built by | George E. Heathman |
| Architect | Claussen and Claussen |
| Architectural style | Early 20th Century Commercial |
| NRHP Reference # | 14000846 |
| Added to NRHP | August 25, 2014 |
The Park Heathman Hotel, originally known as the Heathman Hotel, is a residential building in Portland, Oregon, that serves low-income seniors and disabled persons. Owned by Harsch Investment Properties, the building was renamed Park Tower Apartments in the 1980s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The Park Heathman Hotel was constructed by George E. Heathman in 1926 at the northeast corner of SW Park Avenue and Salmon Street, a year before he built the New Heathman Hotel one block away at the southwest corner of SW Broadway and Salmon Street. It was called the Heathman Hotel until construction of the New Heathman Hotel.
After voters approved construction of both the Burnside Bridge and the Ross Island Bridge, investors of the 1920s sought an expansion of Portland's commercial district south of Morrison Street in Downtown Portland. The downtown expansion effort coincided with a building frenzy all over town. The area of the South Park Blocks was part of the general direction of new construction, and new buildings included the Park Heathman Hotel, the Roosevelt Hotel (1924), the Congress Hotel expansion (1924, demolished in 1980), the Medical Arts Building (1925), the New Heathman Hotel (1927), the Portland Theater (1928), and the Pacific Building (1928). Over 184 new buildings were constructed in Portland in the 1920s, and 38 were hotels. Heathman, a general contractor responsible for construction of the 112-room Roosevelt Hotel at the southwest corner of Park Avenue (9th Avenue) and Salmon Street in 1924, began construction of the 302-room Heathman Hotel in 1925 with plans provided by architects Claussen and Claussen. The original cost estimate for the Park Heathman Hotel was $700,000. Fully furnished, the hotel was estimated to cost over $1,000,000.
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