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The Bank of California Building or also The Bidwell & Company Building, is a historic two-story building in downtown Portland, Oregon. Since 1978, it has been on the National Register of Historic Places.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 National Register of Historic Places: Multnomah County, Oregon, pg. 1 )〕 The building is currently vacant. This location was the site of the first Portland Central Library, which moved to its present site in the early 1920s. The Bank of California saw the lot as fit to build a Portland branch and hired local notable architect A. E. Doyle to design it. Doyle's chief designer Charles K. Greene had traveled abroad to study Greco-Roman architectural forms in the 1910s.〔King, Bart: ''An Architectural Guidebook to Portland'', pgs. 61. Gibbs Smith, 2001〕 The result of his research resulted in three Italianate buildings, of which the Bank of California Building was the first. The others were the Chicago/Italianate Pacific Building and the Public Service Building, an early skyscraper. The exterior lights on the Public Services Building are of the same design of those on the Bank of California Building. The Bank of California remained at this site for 50 years until moving a couple of blocks west to the Union Bank of California Tower. The building underwent an intensive renovation in 2000.〔King, Bart: ''An Architectural Guidebook to Portland'', pgs. 16. Gibbs Smith, 2001〕 ==See also== *Architecture of Portland, Oregon *List of Registered Historic Places in Multnomah County, Oregon 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bank of California Building (Portland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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