Pittock Mansion

Pittock Mansion, a forty-six-acre estate in Portland’s West Hills overlooking downtown, was built between 1909 and 1914 as the home of publisher Henry Pittock and Georgiana Burton Pittock. Designed by Edward T. Foulkes in French Renaissance and Beaux Arts styles, the forty-six-room house included unusually modern features such as an elevator, intercoms, and a central vacuum system. Its gardens reflected Georgiana Pittock’s horticultural leadership in Portland’s rose culture. After a 1911 political dispute over a city-funded water line, the family remained there until 1958. Damaged in the 1962 Columbus Day Storm and threatened with demolition, it was saved by public fundraising, bought by the city, restored, and opened as a museum in 1965.

Portland, Oregon · United States