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Montgomery Park (Portland, Oregon)
Montgomery Park is an office building and former Montgomery Ward mail-order catalog warehouse and department store located in Portland, Oregon, United States, built in 1920. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places under its historic name Montgomery Ward & Company Building. The building is located on property once used for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, of 1905.〔〔Painter, John Jr. (October 4, 1984). "Trade center slated at Ward's warehouse". ''The Oregonian'', p. D8.〕 It was occupied by Montgomery Ward from 1920 until 1985, although the majority of the company's operations at this location ended in 1982.〔 The building is the second largest office building in Portland with .
==Description and original uses==
At the time of its completion, in September 1920, the building was the largest in the city,〔 as measured by floor space, which was approximately originally.〔 A wing was added to the building's northwest corner in 1935–36, changing what had been an L-shaped building to a roughly U-shaped one.〔 The building has nine floors plus a basement. The 4th through 9th floors were used almost exclusively as warehouse space, while most portions of the 2nd and 3rd floors functioned as office and mail-order workspace. The first floor was used primarily for loading and unloading of freight arriving and leaving by truck or rail and temporary storage of such goods. Three rail spurs served the facility, extending into the ground floor.〔 Among other things, the building is known for its large steel-framed roof sign, the largest sign in Portland,〔 which was constructed in 1925.〔
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