Weil's Department Store, Hillsboro

Title

Weil's Department Store, Hillsboro

Description

Photo of a two-story brick building on a street corner. The road appears to be dirt, and trolley tracks run from the foreground to the right front of the image. There is a poured concrete sidewalk on both sides of the building. The bricks appear to be roughly cut and larger. The first floor of the building has two larger wooden freight doors topped by four small clerestory windows, one blocked by a metal gate. A second building adjoins on to it at the left rear of the photo. The corner of the building is a recessed entryway, with a support posts reading 'Shoe Store.' Windows take up the right front of the building, with a white awnings overhanging them. A sign reading 'Weil's Dept. Store' rests above the awnings. Pairs of double hung, recessed windows are spaced evenly along the left side of the second story of the building; single double hung windows decorate the front of the second floor. All windows feature awnings that, when extended, shade the top half of the window; most are open, four are furled. A power pole sits on the corner sidewalk in front of the building; it has two cross-struts with multiple transformers, and several power lines run to and from the pole out of the image and down toward another pole just visible in the rear of the image.

Back: Weil's Store, N.E. corner of Main & 3rd. About 1920.

Identifier

WCMpic_000245

Subject

Cities and towns

Department stores

Public architecture

Weil, Jacob

Social History

Local & State History

Western United States History

Economic History

Spatial Coverage

Hillsboro, Oregon

Language

English

Date Created

circa 1920s

Date

1920/1929

Medium

photographic prints

Rights

Online access to this image is for research and educational purposes only. To inquire about permissions, order a reproduction, or for more information, please contact the Five Oaks Museum at Research@FiveOaksMuseum.org.

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Type

Still Image

Source

Washington County Museum