Name: Lovejoy Medical Building
Address: 2525 NW Lovejoy Street
City: Portland
Year of Construction: 1964
Architect: James C. Gardiner
Original Use: Healthcare (Medical Offices)
Status: In Use
National Register of Historic Places: Not Listed / Non-Contributing Resource in the Alphabet Historic District
Description: Beaverton-based architect James Gardiner approached the mundane program of the Lovejoy Medical Building by introducing an expansive louvered steel screen across the majority of the Lovejoy Street façade. The textured but visually uniform screen intersects an elegant, off-center pavilion tower with geometric breeze blocks and barrel-arched roof forms perhaps reminiscent of a nun’s wimple. The careful composition of the façade creates an unexpected and striking Modernist statement in a predominantly residential area of northwest Portland.
FURTHER INFORMATION
• Lovejoy Medical Building, Jones Architecture [new window]
• James C. Gardiner, Docomomo US/WEWA [new window]
• Douglas Perry, “We’ve Found Portland’s Ugliest Building. Or Have We?” The Oregonian [new window]
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