Spalding Building

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

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Spalding Building

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| designated_other1_name = Portland Historic Landmark{{citation|author=Portland Historic Landmarks Commission|title=Historic Landmarks -- Portland, Oregon|format=XLS|date=July 2010|url=http://www.portlandonline.com/planning/index.cfm?c=44013&a=146276|accessdate=November 13, 2013}}.

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| image = Spalding Building corner - Portland, Oregon.JPG

| caption = The Spalding Building in 2015

| location = 319 SW Washington Street
Portland, Oregon

| coordinates = {{coord|45.519837|-122.674976|region:US-OR_type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = USA Portland downtown#Oregon#USA

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| built = 1911

| architect = Cass Gilbert

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| added = October 7, 1982

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| refnum = 82001513 {{NRISref|2007a}}

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The Spalding Building, formerly the Oregon Bank Building, is a historic office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States on the northwest corner of SW 3rd Avenue and Washington streets. Since 1982, it has been on the National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web

| url = http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OR/Multnomah/state9.html

| title = National Register of Historic Places: Multnomah County, Oregon, pg. 9

| website=nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com [private]

| accessdate = 2007-07-28

}}{{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=40|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425031913/https://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf|archive-date=April 25, 2018|url-status=dead|date=June 6, 2011|access-date=2023-08-06}}

Architect Cass Gilbert worked on the American Renaissance-style Spalding building while also working on the Woolworth Building in New York City. Completed in 1911, it was considered a skyscraper.King, Bart: An Architectural Guidebook to Portland, pg. 145. Gibbs Smith, 2001

The {{convert|103824|sqft|m2|adj=on}} buildingMultnomah County Assessor. [http://portlandmaps.com/detail.cfm?action=Assessor&propertyid=R246075&state_id=1N1E34CD%20%207800&address_id=101163&intersection_id=&dynamic_point=0&x=7644681.12&y=683138.941&place=319%20SW%20WASHINGTON%20ST&city=PORTLAND&neighborhood=DOWNTOWN&seg_id=138606 Assessor Information on PortlandMaps.com] contains 12 above-ground floors, and its construction mimics a classical column: A base, a shaft, and a capital.{{cite web

| url = http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=spaldingbuilding-portland-or-usa

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070206193437/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=spaldingbuilding-portland-or-usa

| url-status = usurped

| archive-date = February 6, 2007

| title = Emporis: Spalding Building

| accessdate = 2007-07-28}}

In spring 2016, Squarespace, a website-design company based in New York City, moved its Portland office to the Spalding Building, in newly renovated space used by around 150 employees.{{cite news|last=Rogoway|first=Mike|title=Rounded individuals fit easily into this Squarespace|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2016/08/squarespace_ceo_anthony_casale.html|accessdate=2016-08-27|newspaper=The Oregonian|orig-year=online date August 22|date=August 24, 2016|pages=B13, B15}}