Simon Benson House

The Simon Benson House is a 19th-century house located in downtown Portland, Oregon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Type: House
Description: historic building in Portland, Oregon, U.S
Address: 1803 Southwest Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97201

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Portland Art Museum and Viking Pavilion.

Portland Art Museum

Museum

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The Portland Art Museum is an art museum in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The Portland Art Museum has 240,000 square feet, with more than 112,000 square feet of gallery space. Portland Art Museum is situated 1,600 feet north of Simon Benson House.

Viking Pavilion

Sports venue

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Viking Pavilion, attached to the Peter W. Stott Center, is a 3,094-seat multi-purpose arena located on the Portland State University campus in downtown Portland, Oregon. Viking Pavilion is situated 600 feet southwest of Simon Benson House.

South Park Blocks

Park

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The South Park Blocks form a city park in downtown Portland, Oregon. The Oregonian has called it Portland's "extended family room", as Pioneer Courthouse Square is known as Portland's "living room".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Portland and Southwest Portland.

Downtown Portland

Suburb

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Downtown Portland is the central business district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is on the west bank of the Willamette River in the northeastern corner of the southwest section of the city and where most of the city's high-rise buildings are found.

Southwest Portland

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Southwest Portland comprises the part of the city south of Burnside and west of the river, including the downtown core and Washington Park.

Goose Hollow

Suburb

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Goose Hollow is a neighborhood in southwest Portland, Oregon. It acquired its distinctive name through early residents' practice of letting their geese run free in Tanner Creek Gulch and near the wooded ravine in the Tualatin Mountains known as the Tanner Creek Canyon.

Simon Benson House

Categories: building and residential building
Location: Multnomah, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

45.51229° or 45° 30′ 44″ north

Longitude

-122.6854° or 122° 41′ 7″ west

Levels

Operator

Portland State University

Open location code

84QVG867+WR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 333375880

OpenStreetMap feature

building=house

Wikidata ID

Q7518266

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From French to Hungarian—“Simon Benson House” goes by many names.

French: “Simon Benson House”
Hungarian: “Simon Benzon-ház”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Portland Farmers Market at PSU and Smith’s Kitchen.

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