Golden West Hotel Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA

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View from Everett Street — Everett Street facade of the Golden West Hotel, designed for black railway workers in 1906. Portland, Oregon. Image credit: Holly Hayes

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Founded in 1906, the Golden West Hotel was built to accommodate black railway workers who could not stay in Portland's white-owned hotels. It was a center of African American social life until it closed in 1931. Later used as low-cost housing, it is now owned by Central City Concern.