Jeanne Manor Apartment Building

{{Short description|Historic building in Portland, Oregon, U.S.}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Jeanne Manor Apartment Building

| nrhp_type =

| image = Jeanne Manor Apartment Building - Portland, Oregon (2014).jpg

| caption = The Jeanne Manor Apartment Building in 2014

| location = 1431 SW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon

| coordinates = {{coord|45.514647|-122.684129|region:US-OR_type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = USA Portland downtown#Oregon#USA

| map_caption = Location within downtown Portland

| built = 1931

| architect = Bennes & Herzog

| architecture = Modern Movement

| added = March 5, 1998

| area = {{convert|0.2|acre}}

| refnum = 98000201{{NRISref|version=2009a}}

}}

The Jeanne Manor Apartment Building is a seven-story apartment hi-rise located in downtown Portland, Oregon, in the United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web|title=Oregon National Register List|publisher=Oregon Parks and Recreation Department|url=http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf|page=35|format=PDF|date=June 6, 2011|accessdate=June 8, 2011|archive-date=June 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609105953/http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf|url-status=dead}} Architects Bennes and Herzog finished the Art Deco structure in 1931. The Jeanne Manor faces the South Park Blocks at the corner of Southwest Park Avenue and Clay Street.

Designed to reflect some of the features of Beaux-Arts apartment buildings along New York City's Park Avenue, the structure was reputedly selected by a group of American architects as an outstanding example of modern apartment design.{{cite news

| title = Apartment Houses Replace Mansions

| newspaper = The Morning Oregonian

| location = Portland, Oregon

| page = 24

| publisher =

| date = February 8, 1931}} Named for the daughter of owner Harry Mittleman, the building cost $400,000 and was part of a $1,000,000 investment made by Mittleman in SW Park Avenue apartment construction during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Marketing of the 72-suite building included the slogan, "In quest of the sun."{{cite news

| title = New Apartments Ready

| newspaper = The Morning Oregonian

| location = Portland, Oregon

| page = 15

| publisher =

| date = March 15, 1931

}}