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Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon)

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Canterbury Castle, also known as Arlington Castle, was a private house in southwest Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built between 1929 and 1931 to a design by architect Jeter O. Frye, who shaped its exterior to resemble England's Canterbury Castle while giving its interior the Art Deco styling fashionable in 1920s Hollywood. The house included castle features such as a moat, a drawbridge and a turret, and it drew paying tourists almost as soon as it was completed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building Type
House 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Oregon, United States 3
Completed Year
1929 2
Classification
Standing Status
Demolished 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 2
Connections

Has Building Type

House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Art Deco, Styles and Movements
Source Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon) (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Copper, Architectural Materials
Source Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon) (Wikipedia)
Stone, Architectural Materials
Source Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon) (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon) - Wikipedia
standing status determination, wikipedia summary
Quote, standing status determination, wikipedia summary
The house underwent major renovation efforts in the 2000s, but those efforts were not completed, and the house was demolished in 2009 after failing to meet municipal safety codes.
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2. Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon) (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_Castle_(Portland,_Oregon), lead definition
    Canterbury Castle, also known as Arlington Castle, was a private house located in southwest Portland, Oregon and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1929)
    completion_date/completed = 1929-1931
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
    Canterbury Castle, also known as Arlington Castle, was a private house located in southwest Portland, Oregon and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Constructed during 1929-1931, the house was designed by Jeter O. Frye to resemble England's Canterbury Castle on the exterior and to evoke the Art Deco styling of Hollywood of the 1920s on the interior. The house included castle featur
  • In Style: Art Deco, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Art Deco architecture in Portland, Oregon
  • Uses Element: Stone, Wikipedia article
    Constructed from basalt stone quarried from Rocky Butte, the house featured characteristics of a castle such as a moat, a drawbridge and a copper-topped turret.
  • Uses Element: Copper, Wikipedia article
    Constructed from basalt stone quarried from Rocky Butte, the house featured characteristics of a castle such as a moat, a drawbridge and a copper-topped turret.
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3. Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Oregon, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Oregon, United States
Wikidata item Q5033627, property P131/P17 (location): Oregon, United States
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