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Parking lot update
From Thursday, July 2 through Monday, September 7 (Labor Day), Pittock Mansion staff will be managing the paid parking lot. This will help ensure a seamless experience for visitors attending Pittock Mansion exhibits, programs, and events, including outdoor activities. On some days, paid parking will continue into the evening for scheduled programs or events.
- If you're visiting the mansion or the mansion grounds, please park in the main lot and pay the posted parking fee.
- If you're visiting the park or hiking nearby and prefer not to pay for parking, you can park for free in the gravel pullouts along Pittock Drive and walk to the trails or mansion grounds.
- Visitors with accessibility needs are given priority in the main parking lot.
- Five parking spaces in the main lot are reserved for hikers. These spaces require payment. Once those spaces are full, hikers should use the free gravel pullouts along Pittock Drive.
Tips For a Safe Park Visit
Car prowls occur throughout the City of Portland including within Washington Park. Please see Tips For a Safe Park visit to learn more how you can help reduce the chance of your vehicle becoming a target.
Remove valuables from your vehicle:
- Remove all valuables, bags, or items that could be perceived as valuable when leaving your vehicle. Store them in the trunk if you cannot take them with you.
- Close vehicle windows and lock vehicle doors every time.
- Keep unused chargers and accessories in your glove box.
- Be observant when you exit or enter your parked vehicle, stop and take a look around the area. Report any suspicious activity to park rangers or the police.
Hours of operation, admission fees, and other information
Please visit the official Pittock Mansion webpage for museum admission information. Park grounds and viewpoints are free.
Map
Year acquired
1964
Size in acres
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History
Once the private home of the Portland pioneer Pittock family, this 22-room house was designed by architect Edward Foulkes and completed in 1914. The mansion sits 1,000 feet above sea level on 46 acres and commands a view of five mountains in the Cascade Range. It is an outstanding architectural achievement with its eclectic design of circular rooms, combining fine plasterwork, cut and polished marbles, cast bronze, and superbly crafted hardwoods and paneling. Its progressive features included a central vacuum system, intercoms, and indirect lighting hidden in alcoves above the walls. The house is completely furnished with antique furniture and objets d'art, including family artifacts, appropriate to its 17th, 18th, and 19th century French and English designs.
Henry Lewis Pittock was a vigorous outdoorsman, and was a member of the first party to climb Mt Hood. He was a consummate businessman, and took ownership of the weekly Oregonian in 1860, the same year he married 15-year-old Georgiana Martin Burton of Missouri, only seven years after arriving on the wagon train from Pennsylvania. He went on to build an empire incorporating real estate, banking, railroads, steamboats, sheep ranching, silver mining, and a pulp and paper industry.
Georgiana loved gardening and kept a terraced flower garden filled with many kinds of flowers. She started the tradition of Portland's annual Rose Festival. In the community, she dedicated herself to the lives of woman and children. She helped found the Ladies Relief Society in 1867 and played a key role in building the Martha Washington home for single working women.
The couple lived there with their family from 1914 until the death of Georgiana in 1918 and Henry in 1919. The house remained as a family residence until 1958. Six years later, the City of Portland purchased the estate for $225,000. It was opened to the public one year later and has remained a community landmark ever since.