Yeon Building

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

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2012}}

{{Infobox building

| name = Yeon Building

| image = Yeon Building - Portland, Oregon.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = Yeon Building in 2012

| location = 522 SW 5th Avenue
Portland, Oregon

| coordinates = {{coord|45.519570|-122.676769|region:US-OR|display=inline,title}}

| map_type = USA Portland downtown

| map_caption = Location in Portland

| completion_date = 1911

| building_type = Commercial offices

| roof = {{convert|59.13|m|abbr=on}}

| floor_count = 15

| elevator_count = 2

| floor_area = {{convert|9569|m2|abbr=on}}

| structural_engineer=

| main_contractor = Thompson Starrett, WS Dinwiddie

| developer =

| owner =

| architect = Reid & Reid

| management = Urban Renaissance Group

| nrhp = {{Infobox NRHP

| embed = yes

| nrhp_type =

| 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|access-date=November 13, 2013}}.

| designated_other1_color = lightgreen

| refnum = 93001497

| builder = Thompson-Starrett

| architecture = Chicago school, modernist

| added = January 21, 1994

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| references = {{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/122668 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234512/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/122668 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |title=Emporis building ID 122668 |work=Emporis}}{{skyscraperpage|14370}}

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The Yeon Building is a historic {{convert|59.13|m|abbr=on}}, 15-story office building completed in 1911 in downtown Portland, Oregon. Almost completely clad in glazed terra-cotta, and culminating in a colonnade on the top floors, the Yeon Building once was illuminated at night by light sockets built into the cornices, but later removed. The building's namesake is Jean Baptiste Yeon (1865–1928), a self-made timber tycoon who financed the construction. At the time of completion, the Yeon Building was the tallest building in Oregon and it remained so for nearly two years.{{cite book | last=King | first=Bart | page=20 | title=An Architectural Guidebook to Portland | location=Corvallis | publisher=Gibbs Smith | year=2001 | oclc=628034633}}

In 1994, the Yeon Building was added to 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=42|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=August 7, 2023}}{{cite web | url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OR/Multnomah/state11.html | title=National Register Information System | date=January 23, 2007| work=National Register of Historic Places | publisher=National Park Service | access-date=October 18, 2010}} The building was repossessed by First Independent Bank in 2010 from Fountain Village Development and re-sold in March 2011 for $8.9 million.{{cite news|last=Culverwell|first=Wendy|title=Downtown Portland's Yeon Building sells|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2011/03/18/downtown-portlands-yeon-building-sells.html|access-date=August 24, 2011|newspaper=Portland Business Journal|date=March 18, 2011}} The {{convert|126170|sqft|adj=on}} was purchased at that time by RGOF Yeon Building LLC.