1920 NW 26th

Years: 1905 – present  gay friendly only

FAIRMONT HOTEL

  • History from https://www.fairmountpdx.com/ and other sources:

  • The Fairmount Hotel was completed just in time for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Located on NW 26th Avenue, across from what was once the Exposition's entrance, The Fairmount was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Fairmount Apartments

  • The Fairmount Hotel was completed just in time for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Located on NW 26th Avenue, across from what was once the Exposition's entrance, The Fairmount was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

  • Cited in JD Chandler’s book  Hidden History of Portland on page 167 which cites On the Main Stem, some of the Punks who arrived in town remained as sex workers. Places like the Monte Carlo Poolroom and the Fairmont Hotel on Northwest Sixth between Burnside and Couch became notorious for male prostitutes; some of them even dressed as women, becoming the first visible transgender community in Portland.  Per his book, he cites The Main Stem was the street in a city where the migratory community gathered. In the northwest, where most of the jobs were in logging, this street was often the Skid Road, where logs were skidded to the lumber mill…In Portland, the Skid Road was Burnside Street, but it hadn’t seen a lot of logging since the Stumptown days of the 1850s. On pages 170, and 171 he continued his story, A few months after the Vice Clique Scandal (1912), another arrest exposed the working-class homosexual community…Acting police chief Enouch Slover saw an opportunity when he received a tip that “Greeks” were engaging in illicit sex at the Monte Carlo Poolroom in the North End. Detectives Craddock and Goltz staked out the poolroom and hauled in five young men who confessed to prostitution and implicated several men as their clients. This was considered the “Greek Scandal”. On page 170 he writes, On April 18, they followed nineteen-year-old Grover King to the Fairmont Hotel with thirty-five-year-old Andrew Dillage, a migrant laborer originally from Greece. The two detectives broke into room 29 and caught the two men in bed preparing to have sex. Dillage was convicted of attempted sodomy and spent fifteen months in the Oregon State Penitentiary. King, who may have been cooperating with the police, was charged with vagrancy, and the charge was dropped.