This Victorian Gothic cast-iron structure is a long standing favorite of the remaining historic structures of Portland, Oregon. A brick and stone Catholic cathedral had been built originaly in 1878 and the local church elder's house, the Bishop House, built next to it the following year, but the church's " seedy" location, in the heart of the Old Town area, where the many saloons were filled with sailors of the sea-faring docked ships in the booming new port of call on the West Coast town of Portand , were " their debauching behavior", forced the new found church leader to abandon the structure after only 1 year and see the actual church to be demolished only 15 years later. The surviving Bishop House building would find uses as a clothes store, a Chinese tong society facility and a restuarant.
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