Edith Green – Wendell Wyatt Federal Building
| Edith Green – Wendell Wyatt Federal Building | |
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Front of the building from the west in 2012
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 Location within Portland, Oregon
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| General information | |
| Type | Office |
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°30′52″N 122°40′37″W / 45.5144°N 122.6770°WCoordinates: 45°30′52″N 122°40′37″W / 45.5144°N 122.6770°W |
| Completed | 1970s |
| Opening | 1975 |
| Management | General Services Administration |
| Height | |
| Roof | 270 feet (82 m) |
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| Floor count | 18 |
| Floor area | 372,461 square feet (34,602.8 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
The Edith Green – Wendell Wyatt Federal Building is a high rise structure in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1975, the 18 story-tower is owned by the Federal Government. The international style office building has more than 370,000 square feet (34,000 m2) of space. Designed by the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill architecture firm, the building is named after Wendell Wyatt and Edith Green who both served in the United States House of Representatives.
The Green – Wyatt building was constructed in the 1970s by Hoffman Construction Company under a $20 million contract. The new building opened in 1975. On June 21, 1989, an arson fire in the lobby caused $300,000 in damages, mostly from the sprinkler system that kept the night-time fire contained to the lobby area. Firefighters returned in February of the next year when a person trapped in an elevator inadvertently set off the fire alarm. Also that year, the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service moved out of the building and into Oregon’s World Trade Center.
The building suffered another fire in February 1993 when a discarded cigarette caused $25,000 in damage to insulation in the basement. All the occupants were evacuated during the late morning fire that had three alarms called, but was easily extinguished with a single bucket of water. At that time the building was valued at $120 million.
In April 1995, the building was evacuated due to a bomb threat that suggested what happened at the Oklahoma City federal building would occur in Portland. No bomb was found, but the government later added additional security measures to the building that housed 1,200 workers in response to the bombing in Oklahoma City. Loriann J. Debray was later sentenced to three months in jail by federal judge Helen J. Frye for the incident. The new protective measures at the building included adding metal detectors and security guards, elimination of visitor parking in the building’s basement, and other vehicles entering the building must show government identification.
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