Marquam Hill is a populated hill located just south of Downtown Portland , Oregon , United States in the Homestead neighborhood. It is also called Pill Hill because it is home to Oregon Health & Science University , Portland VA Medical Center and Shriners Children's Portland .
13-562: Marquam Hill was named for Philip A. Marquam . It is classed by the United States Geological Survey as a populated place and not as a hill. It is part of the Tualatin Mountains , along with nearby Council Crest and Portland Heights . 45°30′00″N 122°41′32″W / 45.500118°N 122.692318°W / 45.500118; -122.692318 This Multnomah County , Oregon state location article
26-632: A "49er" during the gold rush of 1849, and was elected judge in Yolo County . In August 1851, Marquam moved to Portland, Oregon , then a small town of under 1,000 inhabitants. For many years he was the largest landowner in Multnomah County, Oregon , counting among his holdings Portland's Fulton District and his homestead on Marquam Hill in southwest Portland. The hill was part of a 300-acre (1.2 km ) donation land claim he purchased for $ 2,500 in 1857 from John Donner, brother of George Donner of
39-631: A $ 24 million compensation claim under the 2004 Oregon Ballot Measure 37 and 2007 Oregon Ballot Measure 49 . In 2007, the River View Cemetery Association submitted an application to change the zoning of the surplus land from open space to single-family residential for 182 housing units. On May 2, 2011, the City of Portland announced that it had agreed to purchase 146 acres (59 ha) of this undeveloped surplus land for $ 11.25 million, which will be managed by Portland Parks & Recreation with
52-650: A reputation as a transportation advocate and developer. He was instrumental in the formation of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company in 1887. He built the Marquam Grand Opera House in Portland, later renamed the Orpheum Theater. The theater was torn down in the 1922. It was located in the downtown Portland block bounded by Broadway, Alder, 6th and Morrison streets, which block was owned by Marquam. In
65-595: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Philip A. Marquam Philip A. Marquam (February 28, 1823 – May 8, 1912) was a lawyer, judge, legislator, and real estate developer in the U.S. state of Oregon . Philip Marquam was born in Baltimore, Maryland , on February 28, 1823, to Philip Winchester Marquam and Charlotte Mercer Poole. The family later moved to Indiana . There Philip attended law school in Bloomington, Indiana . He went to California as
78-552: Is the Marquam Bridge in Portland, opened in 1966, Marquam Hill and the adjacent Marquam Gulch and Marquam Nature Park . The community of Marquam, Oregon , is named for his older brother, Alfred. River View Cemetery (Portland, Oregon) River View Cemetery is a non-profit cemetery located in the southwest section of Portland, Oregon . Founded in 1882, it is the final resting place of many prominent and notable citizens of Oregon , including many governors and members of
91-518: The United States Senate . Other notable burials include Henry Weinhard 's family, W.A.S.P Pilot Hazel Ying Lee , football player Lyle Alzado , baseball player Carl Mays , and famous western lawman Virgil Earp . River View Cemetery Association was founded as a non-profit cemetery by William S. Ladd , James Terwilliger , Henry Failing , Henry W. Corbett , Henry Pittock , Simon Benson , and others in 1882. All those who joined co-owned
104-590: The Hilltop Garden Mausoleum and Main Mausoleum. There are also private mausoleums and crypts. River View is an endowment care cemetery as defined by the state of Oregon. River View Cemetery occupies approximately 350 acres (140 ha) on the west slope of the Willamette River, south of Downtown Portland , but approximately half of the property is not a developed cemetery. Initially, this excess land
117-526: The cemetery. In 1902 a Roll Call statue was added to honor the 165 Oregonians who died in the Spanish–American War . The statue stood for 121 years before being stolen in 2023. The first adult burial was Dr. William Henry Watkins. In the 1940s a 135-person chapel was added, designed by Pietro Belluschi . Overlooking the Willamette River , the cemetery has a variety of mausoleums including
130-468: The couple, four sons and seven daughters. The youngest child, Thomas Alfred "Tom" Marquam, served as mayor of Fairbanks , Alaska from 1923 to 1925. Emma Marquam died in 1902. Marquam died at the home of one of his daughters, in southwest Portland, shortly after midnight on May 8, 1912, four days after suffering a stroke . He is buried in River View Cemetery in Portland. Bearing his name
143-626: The ill-fated Donner Party . The hill is now the site of the Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center . In 1862, he was elected Multnomah County judge. He served eight years in the position, having been re-elected to a second four-year term in 1866. In 1882, Marquam was elected as a Republican to the Oregon House of Representatives from Multnomah County . Marquam gained
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#1732852452599156-609: The south half of the same block he built an eight-story office building, the Marquam Building , completed around 1892, next to his home, a small house at the southeast corner of the block. The office building and house were later torn down and replaced by the Northwestern National Bank Building . Less than two years after arriving in Oregon, Marquam married Emma Kern, on May 8, 1853. Eleven children were born to
169-404: Was held for future expansion of the cemetery, but demographic trends away from burial (in favor of cremation ) have reduced the need for future expansion. For example, in 1973 eight percent of Oregonians chose cremation, versus 68 percent in 2010. In 2006, the River View Cemetery Association sought to develop 184 acres (74 ha) of their surplus land into residential properties, and filed
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