Name: Burger King
Address: West Burnside and West Broadway
City: Portland
Year of Construction: 1977
Architect: Tedd Chilless
Original Use: Restaurant
Status: Demolished
National Register of Historic Places: Not Listed
Description: A one-story, trapezoidal brick building with integrated planters and eating plaza. This building won the Portland Chapter American Institute of Architects’ Design Award in 1978. It was demolished in 2010.
Further Information
• Burger King on Burnside, 1978 on Recast Oregon [new window]
• Burger King opens in new wrapper from the Oregonian [PDF, new window]
• Have it every which way: The hated Burnside Burger King once won Design Awards from the Oregonian [new window]
• Eulogy for a Burger King from The Mercury [new window]
• Portland’s Way but not right away; The Broadway and Burnside Burger King finally gone from Portland Architecture [new window]
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