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Portland, Oregon
U.S. Custom House and Post Office (1901; n.d.)
Completed in 1875.
Supervising Architect: Alfred B. Mullett
Still in use by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which began meeting here in 1973; the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon met here until 1933; the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon met here until that court was abolished in 1912.
Renamed the Pioneer Courthouse in 1969.


Source: U.S. Treasury Department, A History of Public Buildings (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1901): 486-87.

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Source: Center for Historic Buildings, General Services Administration, Building #OR0024ZZ.

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