Constructed in two distinct phases in 1911, the Fountain Place Apartments were originally named the Wheeldon Annex. The building occupies a quarter-block lot in downtown Portland, Oregon, at the corner of SW Salmon Street and SW 10th Avenue. Fountain Place is one of the earliest surviving examples of a U-shaped residential apartment/hotel in downtown Portland. It is a 5-story brick structure with intact Italian Renaissance Revival features such as a decorative bracketed cornice, buff brick body with corbeled details and rusticated base, and an upper level treated as a paneled frieze. The property is owned by Home Forward. There are 80 total units, with studio, one and two bedroom homes. The residents it serves have incomes of 30% of the area median income.

Working with Lorentz Bruun Construction, we are delivering a design-build project to improve the life safety of Fountain Place Apartments, while retaining its historic character. To learn about how the redevelopment of Fountain Place Apartments revives a historic building by providing critical infrastructure for current residents and new arrivals, please visit: Fountain Place Apartments PDX