Treves Hotel

The Treves Hotel in Portland, Oregon's uptown district. It was built in 1912 at 1035-1039 SQ(W?) Stark Street, now 11th and Stark Streets. It was the site of a March, 28 1939 Works ProgresS Administration (WPA) interview for the Federal Writers' Project of Joseph Brough for Rivertown Life, for a project titled Oregon Folklore Studies. A description of the surroundings stated:

"The hotel in which Mr. Brough lives is situated AbOUT two blocks from the Elks Building on Eleventh Street. The informant occupies a single room, very clean and neat and hung with nifty pictures, illustrating from left to right, the acme of nudity in white skin. The place in representation of a Chinese Paradise, with a very choice specimen of Indian extraction, clothed with a feather in her hair. Very soothing.

Brough was the "first kid that ever sold newspapers in Castle Rock", carried shoeshine kit until 25, was a logger who greased skids, and worked for S. P. [&?] S. Railroad before becoming a conductor on freight trains for the same line. He described being a dance callers on the "river" in the 1890s and calling the "lancers" (changes) on Saturday nights when he was working at a logging camp greasing skids behind a bull team. He also recalled "the fellows used to send me for foolish things if they could, but sometimes I was wise. Like when they sent me into town for a meat-augur." A request that promted him to take "the rest of the day off and let them think I was hunting" even though he "bit all right when I was sent after a "cross-haul"--that's where two skidroads come together and cross each other." He also worked at a sawmill and sawed ties for the A & C road from Goble to Astoria and worked on a grade driving mule for outfit.

Recent developments

The Treves Hotel appears to have been renamed the Joyce Hotel and the building is now home to the Fish Grotto seafood restaurant, the Red Cap Garage gay club, and Boxxes bar. In 2002 DZ Real Estate owned the property.

See also

• Hamilton Hotel (Portland, Oregon)