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The Treves Hotel is in Portland, Oregon's uptown district. It was built in 1912 at 1035-1039 SW Stark Street, now 11th and Stark Streets.[1] It was the site of a March, 28 1939 Works Progress Administration (WPA) interview for the Federal Writers' Project of Joseph Brough for Rivertown Life, for a project titled Oregon Folklore Studies.[2] A description of the surroundings stated:
"The hotel in which Mr. Brough lives is situated about two blocks from the Elks Building on Eleventh Street. The informant occupies a single room, very clean and neat and hung with nifty pictures, illustrating from left to right, the acme of nudity in white skin. The place in representation of a Chinese Paradise, with a very choice specimen of Indian extraction, clothed with a feather in her hair. Very soothing.
Brough was the "first kid that ever sold newspapers in Castle Rock", carried shoeshine kit until 25, was a logger who greased skids, and worked for S. P. [&?] S. Railroad before becoming a conductor on freight trains for the same line. He described being a dance caller on the "river" in the 1890s and calling the "lancers" (changes) on Saturday nights when he was working at a logging camp greasing skids behind a bull team. He also recalled "the fellows used to send me for foolish things if they could, but sometimes I was wise. Like when they sent me into town for a meat-augur." A request that promted him to take "the rest of the day off and let them think I was hunting" even though he "bit all right when I was sent after a "cross-haul"--that's where two skidroads come together and cross each other." He also worked at a sawmill and sawed ties for the A & C road from Goble to Astoria and worked on a grade driving mule for outfit.
Recent developments
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The Treves Hotel appears[who?] to have been renamed the Joyce Hotel[3][4] and the building is now home to the Fish Grotto seafood restaurant, the Red Cap Garage gay club, and Boxxes bar. In 2002, DZ Real Estate owned the property.[5][6]
See also
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edit- ^ Alma Hotel National Register of Historic Places registration form
- ^ River Town Life id number:W9669, Beliefs and customs -- Sketches Accession no. W9669 Date received: 10 October 1940
- ^ 322 SW 11TH AVE (includes photo) Portland Maps
- ^ building photo
- ^ Katia Dunn ROOM 19; A Night Inside the Joyce February 21, 2002Portland Mercury
- ^ Hotel reviews website with photos
45°31′21″N 122°40′55″W / 45.522461°N 122.681859°W [[Category:Hotels in Portland, Oregon]] [[Category:1912 architecture]]