Postcard Past / Present Photo
Exploring power, culture, & the history of cities through present-day photo recreations of old postcards.

Portland City Hall, Oregon

Henry Hefty won the competition to design Portland’s City Hall and construction made it as far as the building foundation before the New City Hall Commission–newly formed by the Oregon state legislature to wrest control of the project away from the city–changed their minds.

The Grotto, Portland

Carved into an extinct cinder cone volcano–Rocky Butte–in Portland, the Grotto at the Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother is pretty metal as far as Catholic shrines go.

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