Name: Burger King
Address: West Burnside and West Broadway
City: Portland
Year of Construction: 1977
Architect: Tedd Chilless
Original Use: Commercial (Restaurant)
Status: Demolished
National Register of Historic Places: Not Listed
Description: A one-story, trapezoidal brick building with integrated planters and eating plaza. This building won the Portland Chapter American Institute of Architects’ Design Award in 1978. It was demolished in 2010.
Further Information
• Burger King on Burnside, 1978, Lost Oregon [new window]
• “Burger King Opens in New Wrapper” (The Oregonian) [PDF, new window]
• Peter Ames Carlin, “Have It Every Which Way: The Hated Burnside Burger King Once Won Design Awards” (The Oregonian) [new window]
• Sarah Mirk, “Eulogy for a Burger King” (Portland Mercury) [new window]
• “Portland’s Way, But Not Right Away,” Portland Architecture [new window]
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