Portland Sanitarium Nurses' Quarters

The Portland Sanitarium Nurses' Quarters, located at 6012 Southeast Yamhill Street in southeast Portland, Oregon, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The back portion of the building was built in 1928 and is a neoclassical brick style; the 4-story front portion was built in 1946 in an International style. It was designed by Claussen and Claussen[1][2]

Portland Sanitarium Nurses' Quarters
The building's exterior in 2017
Location in Oregon
Location in United States
LocationPortland, Oregon
Coordinates45.5157°N 122.6017°W / 45.5157; -122.6017
Built1928
ArchitectClaussen and Claussen
Architectural styleNeoclassical
NRHP reference No.100001275

The building housed nurses for the former, adjacent, Portland Adventist Sanitarium. The Sanitarium was founded in ca. 1895 when Seventh Day Adventist rented an eight-bedroom mansion from Simeon Reed, turning it into the six-patient sanitarium. By 1897 the facility was owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, who founded the vegetarian Portland Sanitarium Food Company, a branch of the Battle Creek Sanitarium Food Company. A vegetarian restaurant also opened on the site.[3]

Until it was closed for construction, the Nurses' Quarters building held the Institute for International Christian Communication's WorldView Center, a missionary training program. The program split in 2018, with the training center being renamed to CultureBound. The building was sold then.[4][5][6]

The building went through land use review/rezoning in 2014 to be turned into 75 micro-apartments. The construction also included seismic retrofits. It will be called "Tabor Commons Apartments" when it reopens in ca. 2020.[7][8]

See also

References
  1. "Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Portland Sanitarium Nurses' Quarters listed in National Register of Historic Places". Oregon.gov. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. "Sanitarium's housing for nurses earns place on national history list". Portland Tribune. Pamplin Media Group. OCLC 46708462. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
  3. Anderson, Heather (2015). Portland : a food biography. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-1-4422-2738-5. OCLC 881824352.
  4. "INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATION INC | Charities | PWI". projectworldimpact.com. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  5. "Institute for International Christian Communication (Accredited Organization Profile) - ECFA.org". ecfa.org. Retrieved 6 July 2020. Institute for International Christian Communication changed its name in 2018 to CultureBound
  6. "Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Intern... - Google Books". IRS. 1998. p. 265. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  7. Elliot Njus (16 January 2015). "Micro-apartments proposed in SE Portland's Mt. Tabor neighborhood". oregonlive. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  8. "Metro Reports: 320 NE Lloyd, Raleigh 22, Alberta.13, and more - Next Portland". Next Portland. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2020.


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