# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Portland 101: Crooked Grids, Tiny Blocks, and the Building of the City
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Event Description**: How did Portland get this way, with its little square blocks and weird intersections, the funny pronunciations and the bridge ramps to nowhere? Why is it even located where it is? There’s a reason for everything (we didn’t say a good reason!)

Stone carver’s mistakes, upside-down pineapples, and mythical tunnels are just part of the things about which true Portland residents should know. We’ll look at the grid, the naming and re-naming of our streets, and the eras of commercial architecture that have marked our compact and vibrant downtown, as well as the near blitzkrieg effect of the Great Demolition which left us with parking lots where the temples of finance and industry once stood. Long-time AHC Education Committee member Robert Jordan will guide us through 150 years of Portland’s development – a great overview for those just getting interested in Portland’s architectural heritage as well as for anyone who ever wondered “Why did they do THAT?”
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/portland-101-crooked-grids-tiny-blocks-and-the-building-of-the-city/200029201065244
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 36

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 701 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97214
- **lat**: 45.5178
- **long**: -122.66108
- **full address**: 701 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97214

## Event gallery

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  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/8fbccae2cbb2acd0835ae0250e5d8d74c06beea8fb4c720a329e76c306096537-rimg-w1200-h628-dcc5d2c2-gmir?v=1764653263

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Portland 101: Crooked Grids, Tiny Blocks, and the Building of the City being held?
  - **A:** Portland 101: Crooked Grids, Tiny Blocks, and the Building of the City takes place on Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 am at 701 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97214.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Portland 101: Crooked Grids, Tiny Blocks, and the Building of the City?
  - **A:** Portland 101: Crooked Grids, Tiny Blocks, and the Building of the City is organized by Architectural Heritage Center.

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