511 Federal Building
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The 511 Federal Building is a former federal post office that is currently known as the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design of the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, Oregon, United States.[1] PNCA moved into the building in February 2015, after a $32 million remodeling project.[2]
Previous occupants of the building included the Department of Homeland Security offices for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,[3] as well as the Department of Agriculture.
The building was constructed in 1916–1918 and opened in 1919[4] after being commissioned by the Secretary of the Treasury, one of the last post offices built under the 1893 Tarsney Act, and cost $1 million.[3] It was designed by architect Lewis P. Hobart.[4] It is located between Portland's Old Town Chinatown and the Pearl District. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places[3] in 1979, as the U.S. Post Office.[4][5] The building is six stories tall and has a footprint of approximately Script error: No such module "convert"..[6] It has a basement and sub-basement, complete with walled off shanghai tunnels.
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Circa 1920 picture of the building, viewed from the southeast
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2015 picture, shortly after completion of renovation work
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511 Building Cornerstone
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East entrance in 2008
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Cast bronze lamp over entrance
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- Federal buildings in the United States
- 1918 establishments in Oregon
- Government buildings completed in 1918
- Government buildings in Portland, Oregon
- Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
- National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon
- Neoclassical architecture in Portland, Oregon
- Pacific Northwest College of Art
- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
- Buildings and structures in Pearl District, Portland, Oregon