page_title: Montgomery Park (Portland, Oregon)
section_title: Retail store
hierarchical_section_title: Montgomery Park (Portland, Oregon) / Description and original uses / Retail store
caption_attribution_description: English: Montgomery Park in northwest Portland, Oregon in 2012
context_page_description: Montgomery Park is an office building and former Montgomery Ward mail-order catalog warehouse and department store located in Portland, Oregon, United States, built in 1920. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places under its historic name Montgomery Ward & Company Building. The building is located on property once used for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, of 1905. It was occupied by Montgomery Ward from 1920 until 1985, although the majority of the company's operations at this location ended in 1982. The building is the second-largest office building in Portland with 577,339 square feet.
context_section_description: Retail service at this location was relatively limited in its first years. A 1936 expansion added retail space, covering a variety of goods, occupying a new mezzanine floor and parts of the 2nd and 3rd floors.  A tire store was opened  in an adjacent annex.  In the post-World War II years, the Vaughn Street store's business declined steadily.  An increasing proportion of the store's customers were attracted to new suburban shopping malls, and in the early 1970s Montgomery Ward began to follow the same path itself, opening stores at Mall 205 and Jantzen Beach Mall, along with a stand-alone store in Beaverton.  The Northwest Portland store closed in July 1976, and the building remained in use only for warehouse and mail-order functions and as a "catalog overstock outlet".  In 1978, the company built a new warehouse in Portland's Rivergate Industrial District, and in 1982 it closed the Northwest Portland warehouse, eliminating 500 jobs at the site.  Only the small "clearance outlet" store continued to operate, and following the 1984 sale of the building, that store closed finally in July 1985.
caption: Historical plaque
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