"bookstore in the world. Although it retained the name, the Guinness Book of World Records listed the Barnes & Noble College Booksellers location on Fifth Avenue in New York City as the largest bookstore in the world based on floor space, although Powell's Books of Portland, Oregon, is usually considered the largest based on shelf-space. Nevertheless, World's Biggest Bookstore claimed the title on the basis that it carried the most titles. The Barnes & Noble location closed in early 2014. On December 22, 2010, Maruzen and Junkodou Shoten opened a 73 000 square foot (6804 m²) bookstore in the Umeda"
"color-coded rooms and over 3,500 different sections. The inventory for its retail and online sales is over four million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books. Powell's buys around 3,000 used books a day. Powell's was founded by Walter Powell in 1971. His son, Michael Powell, had started a bookstore in Chicago, Illinois, in 1970 which specialized in used, rare, and discounted books, primarily of an academic and scholarly nature. In 1979, Michael Powell joined his father in Portland, right after his father's store was not offered a lease renewal; within a year, they found the location that became its current"
"volumes and has of floor space. Hillsdale Library The Hillsdale Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, located in Hillsdale, Portland, Oregon. The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials. The original library building at this location opened in 1957 and was replaced by a new building on the same site in 2004. The new library, a green building designed to minimize environmental impacts, has of floor space and a storage capacity of 75,000 volumes. In 1913, the Multnomah County Library opened a small deposit station in Southwest Portland. It"
"space, the library is the largest academic library in the Portland metropolitan area and covers an entire city block. The library has a total of 1,430,929 print volumes in its collections and an annual circulation of 162,244 items (in 2014-2-15). In 2014-2015, the library received 1,076,571 visitors. PSU's library is a federal depository library. The library is also a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance. The library holds the Dark Horse Comic Collection, a gift from Dark Horse that brings two copies of every comic book, graphic novel, figurine, and more published and produced by publisher Dark Horse. The library"
"manages PDXScholar, the open access, digital, institutional repository for the university. Branford Price Millar Library The Branford Price Millar Library is the library of Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1968, the academic library was doubled in size in 1991 and houses over 1 million volumes. The five-story building is located on the school's campus on the South Park Blocks in Downtown Portland and is the largest academic library in the Portland area. In 1959, the first PSU library building, Library East, was completed under the presidency of Branford Millar, second president of Portland State"
"is home to the Beverly Cleary Children's Library and the Henry Failing Art and Music Library. Other features include the Sterling Room for Writers, the Collins Gallery on the third floor, and the John Wilson Room. The first floor houses the U.S. Bank Room, a small conference room available for public use. The library's collections weigh more than 875 tons and take up of shelf space. A total of 130 computer terminals are available to the public. Central Library (Portland, Oregon) The Central Library is a three-story public library branch in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1913, it"
"the Corporation for National Service, the Atlantic Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trust for the innovative pedagogical approach to undergraduate education. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education ranks Portland State as a university with ""higher research activity."" The 1.4 million-volume, six-floor Branford Price Millar Library is located in the center of campus, opposite Neuberger Hall on Park Avenue, and has several computer labs, technology and faculty reading rooms, and video viewing rooms. Built in 1966 as a rectangular structure, the library's convex wall of glass facing the campus' park blocks was added in 1989 to surround and preserve"
"power plant. This shopping centre has an area of 800,000 square feet (70,000 m2) of retail space (74,000 m²) and contains around a hundred shops, including major retailers such as, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Zara, Schuh, Waterstone's, Benetton Bank, Apple, and many more top brand names. It is situated in the centre of the city, close to the docks, with entrances on the main High Street (Above Bar Street), on Portland Terrace, through Waterstone's and through John Lewis. There is also a built in multi storey car park with an entrance into the centre along with a 3 tier"
"Central Library (Portland, Oregon) The Central Library is a three-story public library branch in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1913, it serves as the main branch of the Multnomah County Library system. The Georgian style building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Central Building, Public Library in 1979 and underwent major renovations in 1997. The Library Association of Portland was formed in 1864. After going through several locations during the first half-century of existence, the library board decided on a new large main branch for downtown Portland in 1911. The building was designed"
"Leisure"" magazine called the Portland Building ""one of the most hated buildings in America"". Portland Building The Portland Building, alternatively referenced as the Portland Municipal Services Building, is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time. The building houses offices of the City of Portland and is located adjacent to Portland City Hall. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. The building is currently closed for reconstruction, which began"
"Branford Price Millar Library The Branford Price Millar Library is the library of Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1968, the academic library was doubled in size in 1991 and houses over 1 million volumes. The five-story building is located on the school's campus on the South Park Blocks in Downtown Portland and is the largest academic library in the Portland area. In 1959, the first PSU library building, Library East, was completed under the presidency of Branford Millar, second president of Portland State College, serving from 1959 to 1968. That library had its 1"
"via phone, email, or in-person visits. The library is located on the second floor of the Mark Building, and is open Monday through Thursday from noon until five PM by appointment only. Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the US. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the 25 largest art museums in the US, at a total of 240,000 square feet (22,000 m²), with more than 112,000 square"
"Portland Public Library The Portland Public Library is the name of the public library system for Portland, Maine, USA. It is also the name of the city's main library which is located at 5 Monument Square on Congress Street in the Old Port neighborhood of Portland. The system also has three neighborhood branch locations: Burbank Branch, Peaks Island Branch, and Riverton Branch. The Portland Athenaeum (1826-1876) in Portland, Maine, was a subscription library incorporated in 1826 by ""Ichabod Nichols, Edward Payson, Albion K. Parris, Prentiss Mellen, William P. Preble, Ashur Ware, Stephen Longfellow, Nicholas Emery, Isaac Adams, Simon Greenleaf, Joseph"
"periodicals. In 1913, the Library Association of Portland (LAP) built the Central Library in downtown Portland at Tenth Street. They did not use any Carnegie funds for the project, instead financing came from a special two-year tax. On July 1, 1990, the LAP officially transferred ownership of the library buildings and collections to Multnomah County. The Multnomah County Library operates the Central Library in downtown Portland and 18 branches. The Central Library in downtown Portland serves as the main branch of the system. The building was designed by architect A. E. Doyle, and opened on September 6, 1913. It was"
"following slogans: These self-deprecating slogans are in the style of Toronto's landmark bargain store, Honest Ed's. World's Biggest Bookstore The World's Biggest Bookstore was a bookstore in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 20 Edward St, just north of the Toronto Eaton Centre and the Atrium on Bay. Operating from 1980 until 2014, the three-storey store covered 64,000 square feet and was noted for its bright lights and over 20 kilometres of bookshelves. The store was founded by Jack Cole and Carl Cole, the former owners of Coles Bookstore. At the time of its opening in November 1980, in a converted building"
"Baxter Building (Portland, Maine) The Baxter Building is an historic building located at 619 Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. Completed in 1888, it served as the Portland Public Library from its founding until 1978, when the Library moved to another location on Congress Street. The building went unused from 1978 to 1983, when it was purchased by the Maine College of Art (MECA). MECA utilized the space for studio space, dark rooms, as a computer lab and library. In 2010, MECA sold the building to Northland Enterprises LLC, which then leased it to the VIA Group. The building was"
"for a new Midland Library building at the same site along S.E. 122nd Avenue. Thomas Hacker and Associates was the architectural firm for the project and Silco Construction the general contractor. The new library opened on September 16, 1996. It has a floor area of and can hold up to 150,000 books. Midland Library The Midland Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials. Bookmobiles, reading rooms, and small branch libraries provided much of the"
"two rooms above for the various uses of the society."" ""The number of bound volumes it contained in October, 1864, was ten thousand six hundred and forty-seven, beside pamphlets."" However, in 1866 the Athenaeum lost its collection in a fire. In 1876 it merged with the ""Portland Institute and Public Library"" to form ""a Free Public Library."" Construction of the main library building located at 5 Monument Square was completed in 1979. Phase One of a major renovation of the main building by Scott Simons Architects was completed in 2010. Portland Public Library The Portland Public Library is the name"
"the market, was retained as part of the reconfigured market, and is used by about 50 vendors each weekend. In August 2009, a new public fountain was brought into use next to the market's space, in the park at Ash Street, named the Bill Naito Legacy Fountain in honor of Portland businessman and civic leader Bill Naito, who had also been one of the Saturday Market's early supporters. Portland Saturday Market The Portland Saturday Market is an outdoor arts and crafts market in Portland, Oregon. It is the largest continuously operated outdoor market in the United States. It is held"
"Pioneer Place Pioneer Place is an upscale, urban shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon. It consists of four blocks of retail, dining, parking, and an office tower named Pioneer Tower. The mall itself is spread out between four buildings, interconnected by skywalks or underground mall sections. The footprint of the entire complex consists of four full city blocks, bisected by SW Yamhill and Fourth, bounded north-south by SW Morrison and Taylor Streets and east-west by SW Third and Fifth Avenues. Pioneer Place I began construction in the late 1980s and opened in 1990. The development was built in two phases,"
"contains 22,000 square feet. The Last Bookstore The Last Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 453 S Spring Street, Downtown Los Angeles. It claims to be California’s largest new and used book and record store. The store was founded by Josh Spencer in 2005, the first incarnation was a downtown Los Angeles loft, they sold books and other things online only. Then they decided to focus on books, opened a small bookstore on 4th Street and Main Street in December, 2009. They moved to the current incarnation in the Spring Arts Tower at 5th Street and Spring Street on"
"Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Company Building The Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Company Building, also known as the Miller Building, is an historic building at 522-28 Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. Built in 1904 and enlarged in 1911, it housed Portland's largest department store for many years, and is a fine example Renaissance Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It now houses the primary campus facilities of the Maine College of Art. The Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Company Building is located in Portland's Arts District at the upper end of Congress Street."
"World's Biggest Bookstore The World's Biggest Bookstore was a bookstore in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 20 Edward St, just north of the Toronto Eaton Centre and the Atrium on Bay. Operating from 1980 until 2014, the three-storey store covered 64,000 square feet and was noted for its bright lights and over 20 kilometres of bookshelves. The store was founded by Jack Cole and Carl Cole, the former owners of Coles Bookstore. At the time of its opening in November 1980, in a converted building that had housed the Olympia bowling alley, it was unchallenged in its claim as the biggest"
"by architect A. E. Doyle, and opened on September 6, 1913. It was one of the first libraries in the United States to feature an open plan design of the interior. Construction on the building lasted for two years and cost $480,000 to complete. Librarian Mary Frances Isom provided input on the design. The Central Library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Central Building, Public Library on June 11, 1979. On July 1, 1990, the private Library Association of Portland officially transferred ownership of the library to Multnomah County. From 1902 until that date, the"
"Portland Building The Portland Building, alternatively referenced as the Portland Municipal Services Building, is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time. The building houses offices of the City of Portland and is located adjacent to Portland City Hall. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. The building is currently closed for reconstruction, which began in December 2017 and is due to last about three years. The distinctive look"
"an inventory of over 40,000. In January 2008, Powell's announced plans to expand the downtown City of Books by adding as many as two floors to the store's southeast corner. The expansion was due to add at least of new retail space. Plans submitted to the Portland Design Commission in November 2008 called for a rooftop garden atop the new addition and an ""art cube"" over a redesigned main entrance. In March 2010, Michael Powell confirmed plans to hand over management of the business to his daughter Emily as of July. That same month, Powell's announced it would close its"
"a large copper beech tree that was planted in 1890. The Millar Library houses approximately 1,422,427 volumes, 640 print subscriptions, 97,065 accessible electronic books, 2,592,288 microforms, 69,762 maps, and 133,978 audio-visual materials. It is also a repository for federal documents, housing over 400,000 government documents. The Millar Library is open to the public, and allows non-students access to their catalogues of PDF files and published online journals. ""U.S. News & World Report"" currently ranks Portland State as a second tier research university in their 2017 report, but lists it as unranked nationally. The university is ranked among ""The Best 376"
"at S.E. 13th Avenue and Bidwell Street. The old library closed in January 2002, and the new library opened on February 12, 2002. Its floor space amounts to in a building that includes commercial space and 16 residential condominiums. The old building was sold in 2003 for $210,000. Sellwood-Moreland Library The Sellwood–Moreland Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. First established in 1905 as the Sellwood Reading Room, it operated in several Sellwood locations before re-opening in 2002 in a new mixed-use building at S.E. 13th"
"building has both ground floor retail space and office space for a combined of gross leasable space. The eleven-story structure has an exterior clad in aluminum and stainless steel. Inside, there are marble floors, woodwork in the lobbies and the elevators, and more aluminum touches. The building also has underground parking with 70 spaces and 50-person conference room. Harland Financial Solutions and UTi Worldwide Inc. are two of the largest tenants in the building. 400 SW Sixth Avenue 400 SW Sixth Avenue is an eleven-story office building in Downtown Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Originally known as the"
"One Main Place (Portland, Oregon) One Main Place is a privately owned commercial office building in Downtown Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located at the west end of the Hawthorne Bridge, the 20-story skyscraper is tall. Completed in 1982, it is the fifteenth tallest building in Portland, and the sixteenth largest by square-foot. Designed in the modern style by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, it is a concrete and glass tower. The structure was designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and built by Hoffman Construction Company, with completion coming in 1982. One Main Place was acquired by"
"Hillsdale Library The Hillsdale Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, located in Hillsdale, Portland, Oregon. The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials. The original library building at this location opened in 1957 and was replaced by a new building on the same site in 2004. The new library, a green building designed to minimize environmental impacts, has of floor space and a storage capacity of 75,000 volumes. In 1913, the Multnomah County Library opened a small deposit station in Southwest Portland. It held a collection of 30 to"
"the library branch remained open for future government use in 2005. Most of the second floor of the Plaza Building was occupied for five years by the Washington County Museum, which moved into the rented space in fall 2012 but moved back to its previous location, at Portland Community College's Rock Creek campus, in fall 2017. In the government areas there is a conference center and the city council chambers. This includes a 250-seat auditorium. The Civic Center hosts the seasonal, weekly farmer’s market on Saturdays, and a marketplace on Tuesdays that features various vendors, both utilizing the center’s plaza"
"Portland Book Festival Portland Book Festival (formerly Wordstock) is an annual literary festival held in Portland, Oregon, United States, started in 2005. It is the largest festival of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. Events include author readings, writing contests and workshops, exhibits, and a book fair. It is spread over several building around the South Park Blocks in downtown. Called ""the city's annual indulgence in new literary works"" by ""The Oregonian"", the festival is held by the non-profit Literary Arts, which also sponsors the Oregon Book Award. Venues include Portland Art Museum, First Congregational United Church of Christ, The"