located central portland oregon united_states pair buildings freight warehouse passenger terminal portland seattle railway formed commonly known road road short railroad period buildings use portland buildings passenger facilities railway acquired known buildings listed national_register_of_historic_places use successor 1980s east building passenger station usage lasted location matching story brick buildings face opposite sides 11th avenue immediately north street east building street west historically known east west references passenger services east building formally referred passenger station alternatively known names including depot street depot street terminal 11th streets depot 10th depot similar building measures feet feet background formed jointly originally build ultimately operate new railroad lines connecting portland seattle renamed seattle railway early opening track sections planned new railroad commonly referred road road short railroad railroad line line seattle line follow north bank far line follow north bank running east vancouver east portland south bank columbia rail line owned later absorbed september acquired property future terminal buildings rail yard strip land blocks wide 10th 12th avenues stretching north street construction railroad began early new company needed freight storage handling facilities portland end built freight houses 11th avenue street passenger train service originally expected terminate located feet east lengthy negotiations operator eventually reached partially owned parent partially competing railroads weeks passenger service portland started reported instead equip new freight houses use passenger station place access temporarily period active use passenger trains began new station east building street november west building exclusively freight came use time initiated operations portland trains operating station served routes pacific_northwest including seattle seaside train named connected chicago advertised portland chicago service began shifting passenger trains additional trains shifted new platforms train sheds constructed purpose trains including long distance services chicago began carrying sleeping cars portland chicago time trains continued use street station time inaugurated passenger service portland march round trips day passenger train ran mixed freight passenger train operated instead street station passenger trains began serving company laid new track downtown portland salmon street 10th avenue reach terminal owned acquired electric departed station journeys west south salem eugene service station operated june company requested received permission abandon section route declining traffic congestion service cut jefferson streets following day moved ticket office location tracks 10th salmon streets abandoned soon removed years later discontinued remaining passenger service exclusively freight railroad merged railroads form continued railroad freight purposes 1980s vacant time mid-1990s preservation conversion course 1980s usage railroad yards adjacent north northern owned warehouses declined point nearly vacant redevelopment area mixed use neighborhood residential retail uses envisioned approved acre tract master plan foster change time property development subsidiary taken reported new master plan area include renovation street warehouses november sold acre site portland based development company determined extensive clean contaminated soil decades industrial use needed redevelopment proceed predicting approximately year redevelopment entire area associated buildings listed national_register_of_historic_places time vacant renovated late 1990s renovated converted residential use
North Bank Depot Buildings