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The Crystal Hotel (formerly Hotel Alma) is a hotel located in downtown Portland, Oregon. The four-story, wedge-shaped building opened in 1911 as the Hotel Alma on the site of a former logging ranch. At that time, the building housed a hotel above an auto parts business. World War II changed that: the rationing of metals, rubber and parts caused the auto shop to close, ushering in an era of nightclubs and shady dealings within them. The first was Club Mecca, financed and operated by Al Winter, whom the FBI dubbed, "the vice overlord of Portland" because of his control of gambling and most of the rackets in the area. When a reform-minded administration took power in the late 1940s,Winter headed down to Las Vegas to continue his empire, opening the Sahara Casino, then the Lucky Strike and the Mint, working with notorious mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. After Winter went off to Vegas, the Club Mecca space was taken over by Nate Zusman, who renamed it the Desert Room. Nicknamed "Zeus," Zusman enhanced the gambling operations with a call girl service. The madame housed the ladies across the street; Zusman would "order them up" for his clients at the club. By 1978, the building housed a gay bathhouse, and a gay bar, later known as the Silverado. The property is now operated by the McMenamins Company which operates 53 hotel and pub properties in Oregon and Washington. After an extensive renovation and restoration, McMenamins opened the hotel on May 3, 2011. At street level, the open-air Zeus Café offers upscale café food and an emphasis on locally sourced ingredients. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Crystal Hotel (formerly Hotel Alma) is a hotel located in downtown Portland, Oregon. The four-story, wedge-shaped building opened in 1911 as the Hotel Alma on the site of a former logging ranch. At that time, the building housed a hotel above an auto parts business. World War II changed that: the rationing of metals, rubber and parts caused the auto shop to close, ushering in an era of nightclubs and shady dealings within them. The first was Club Mecca, financed and operated by Al Winter, whom the FBI dubbed, "the vice overlord of Portland" because of his control of gambling and most of the rackets in the area. When a reform-minded administration took power in the late 1940s,Winter headed down to Las Vegas to continue his empire, opening the Sahara Casino, then the Lucky Strike and the Mint, working with notorious mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. After Winter went off to Vegas, the Club Mecca space was taken over by Nate Zusman, who renamed it the Desert Room. Nicknamed "Zeus," Zusman enhanced the gambling operations with a call girl service. The madame housed the ladies across the street; Zusman would "order them up" for his clients at the club. By 1978, the building housed a gay bathhouse, and a gay bar, later known as the Silverado. The property is now operated by the McMenamins Company which operates 53 hotel and pub properties in Oregon and Washington. After an extensive renovation and restoration, McMenamins opened the hotel on May 3, 2011. At street level, the open-air Zeus Café offers upscale café food and an emphasis on locally sourced ingredients. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

This assemblage, known as the "Zoobomb pile," isn’t exactly a sculpture. Zoobomb is a weekly bicycling activity in Portland, Oregon, United States during which participants ride bicycles rapidly downhill in the city’s West Hills. Riders often dress up in costume or decorate their bicycles There is an emphasis on unusual bicycles, first and foremost the children’s bicycles or "minibikes," but extending to tall bikes, swing bike, choppers, non-functional bicycles, skateboards, longboards, etc. The Zoobombers are made up of a wide demographic, with a tendency towards young adults. Though many riders bring their own bicycles, the participants maintain a "Zoobomb pile," This is a tower of minibikes anchored to a bicycle rack at the Zoobomb meeting point at the corner of West Burnside Street and S.W. 13th Avenue. These are spare bikes that are used as loaners for would-be Zoobombers who don’t have their own bikes. The pile has become a local landmark.

This assemblage, known as the "Zoobomb pile," isn’t exactly a sculpture. Zoobomb is a weekly bicycling activity in Portland, Oregon, United States during which participants ride bicycles rapidly downhill in the city’s West Hills. Riders often dress up in costume or decorate their bicycles There is an emphasis on unusual bicycles, first and foremost the children’s bicycles or "minibikes," but extending to tall bikes, swing bike, choppers, non-functional bicycles, skateboards, longboards, etc. The Zoobombers are made up of a wide demographic, with a tendency towards young adults. Though many riders bring their own bicycles, the participants maintain a "Zoobomb pile," This is a tower of minibikes anchored to a bicycle rack at the Zoobomb meeting point at the corner of West Burnside Street and S.W. 13th Avenue. These are spare bikes that are used as loaners for would-be Zoobombers who don’t have their own bikes. The pile has become a local landmark.

The Brewery Blocks, located at the former site of the Blitz-Weinhard Brewery, is a five-block shopping and professional district in Portland’s vibrant, post-industrial neighbourhood known as the Pearl District

Fueled by Portland’s economic development during the late 19th century, the U.S. Custom House was constructed to accommodate the city’s burgeoning prosperity and status. In 1875, the U.S. Customs Service first established a presence in Portland, moving into the newly constructed U.S. Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House building (now known as the Pioneer Courthouse). As the city outgrew the space, a new Federal building was planned to house the Customs Service and additional courtrooms. In 1898, construction began on the present U.S. Custom House, reaching completion in 1901. The U.S. Custom House is an exemplary display of the Italian Renaissance Revival style of architecture, exhibiting Baroque and Mannerist features. The building’s first-story walls are brick masonry sheathed in light-gray granite, with rusticated joints and quoins at the corners, and are pierced by window and door openings headed with articulated semicircular arches. A continuous granite stringcourse carved with Vitruvian scrolls and a balustrade above divide the first and second floors. The upper stories are composed of Roman brick with terra-cotta detailing and crowned with a dentil cornice molding supported by scrolled consoles. The flanking pavilions are capped with slate-covered pyramidal roofs, prominently featuring two ornamental vent stacks clad in terra cotta atop a rusticated stone base. A distinctive feature that evokes the interpretative style of the mid-16th-century Italian Mannerist architecture is the ornamentation of the fenestration. This is most prominent with the second- and third-story windows’ display of the "Gibbs surround," which is characterized by keystones and spaced blocks surrounding large windows. Here, this motif is composed of terra-cotta displaying bead and reel decoration, elaborately carved quoins, keystones, and Doric order moldings. Framing the second- and third-story bays of the north and south pavilions are two-story engaged Corinthian columns, supporting a continuous architrave, which is capped with a dentiled cornice and a parapet of alternating brick panels and open balusters