Railway Exchange Building (Portland, Oregon)

The six-story reinforced concrete structure has exterior non-bearing walls, a basement with three-foot brick and stone walls, and a composition roof.

The structure was built in 1910,{{Cite web|url=https://djcoregon.com/news/2010/04/21/oregon-pioneer-building/|title = Oregon Pioneer Building • Daily Journal of Commerce|date = 21 April 2010}} marking Portland's first fully concrete building.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wweek.com/restaurants/2017/02/09/old-town-is-getting-a-new-luxury-hotel-and-mexican-restaurant-in-april/|title = Old Town is Getting a New Luxury Hotel and Mexican Restaurant in April| date=10 February 2017 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best-hotels-in-portland-oregon|title = 14 Best Hotels in Portland, OR|date = 20 December 2018}} It later became known as the Builders Exchange Building, then the Oregon Pioneer Building.

The building once housed the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/05/53d0ae62745352/portland-hotel-lobby-scene-the-people-dcor-perks-free-stuff.html|title = Portland hotel lobby scene: The people, décor, perks (Free stuff)|date = 10 May 2019}} It has also housed the Peruvian and Venezuelan consulates.

The Railway Exchange Building and Huber's Restaurant were added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1979.{{cite web |title=Oregon National Register List |url=http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf |date=June 6, 2011 |publisher=Oregon Parks and Recreation Department |access-date=2011-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628052230/http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf |archive-date=June 28, 2017 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/0f7e440d-d25a-4982-b2e8-619c6595ef87 |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form - Exchange Building and Huber's Restaurant |accessdate=April 24, 2021}}

Marriott International's Autograph Collection debuted the Hi-Lo Hotel in the building in 2017.{{cite web| url = https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/06/02/long-awaited-hotel-opens-in-historic-downtown.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170605202023/http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/06/02/long-awaited-hotel-opens-in-historic-downtown.html| archive-date = 2017-06-05| title = Long-awaited hotel opens in historic downtown Portland building (Photos) - Portland Business Journal}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hotelmanagement.net/openings/autograph-collection-hotels-debuts-revived-oregon-pioneer-building-portland-oregon|title=Autograph Collection Hotels debuts in revived Oregon Pioneer Building in Portland, Oregon|date=29 June 2017}}

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• National Register of Historic Places listings in South and Southwest Portland, Oregon

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Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1910

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon

Category:Buildings and structures in Southwest Portland, Oregon

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