5-473: The Thomas Graham Building , 6031 Southeast Stark Street , Portland , in the U.S. state of Oregon , is a two-story commercial building listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Built in 1910, it was added to the register in 1992. The wood-frame structure, supported by a concrete foundation and including a full basement, houses a business on the first floor and a domestic apartment on
10-592: A drugstore in the building for many years, was born in Ontario , Canada, and moved to Portland in 1891. At that time, the Mount Tabor neighborhood, where the building is located, was slowly changing from rural to residential. Minor commercial hubs in the vicinity generally featured small wooden buildings with recessed storefronts facing streetcar lines. The Graham Building is one of only four such buildings that remain intact in central southeast Portland. The building
15-693: Is currently occupied by Bellwether Bar , a neighborhood bar. Stark Street Stark Street is an east-west-running street in Portland, Oregon , in the United States. The street is named after Benjamin Stark , and is divided as Southeast Stark Street and Southwest Stark Street by the Willamette River . A stretch of Stark Street has been designated Southwest Harvey Milk Street to commemorate LGBTQ rights activist Harvey Milk . On
20-736: The east side of the Willamette River and in parts of Washington County , Stark Street follows the Willamette Baseline . In late 2017, activists proposed renaming Southwest Stark Street for gay rights activist Harvey Milk , noting a history of racism and support of slavery by Stark. In June 2018, the city council approved renaming the 13-block stretch of Stark from Southwest 11th Street and Southwest Naito Parkway within Downtown Portland as Southwest Harvey Milk Street. The name change took effect immediately upon
25-442: The second floor. Architectural features include a recessed storefront facing a colonnade of fluted wood columns, a double-leaf front door, and plate-glass display windows. Constructed by George Foreman for druggist Thomas Graham, the building preserves a form of commercial architecture typical of the city's neighborhood business districts around 1900. The building was named a Portland Historic Landmark in 1981. Graham, who operated
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