Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Hotel Cornelius is a former hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by John V. Bennes's firm, and constructed in 1907–08.The seven-story building is categorized as being 20th-century Baroque Revival architecture, and contains 66 hotel rooms. It was operated by Charles W. Cornelius, who named the hotel for his family and his brother Colonel Thomas R. Cornelius. Their father founded the town of Cornelius to Portland’s west after emigrating to Oregon with Joseph Meek, "famed fur trader, lawman, and politician, in a day when you could be all three."The building has a "dramatic coffered ceiling in the lobby" and a French sheetmetal mansard, cornice, entablature, exterior masonry, and terracotta. It included a ground-floor wood storefront that was once a "Ladies Reception Hall" and an "opulent" basement cafe. "Ornate wood paneling and trim" was included throughout the building.The Cornelius served as a bathhouse for gay men in the 1960s and 1970s, and was then empty for years. There were plans to renovate the building, owned by Portland developer Tom Moyer, as a business hotel in recent years following a period where it was home to vagrants for many years after the 1980s.In 2002, TMT Development purchased the property for $2.4 million with plans to renovate the building. The company applied with the city to tear down the structure.. }
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- Hotel_Cornelius abstract "The Hotel Cornelius is a former hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by John V. Bennes's firm, and constructed in 1907–08.The seven-story building is categorized as being 20th-century Baroque Revival architecture, and contains 66 hotel rooms. It was operated by Charles W. Cornelius, who named the hotel for his family and his brother Colonel Thomas R. Cornelius. Their father founded the town of Cornelius to Portland’s west after emigrating to Oregon with Joseph Meek, "famed fur trader, lawman, and politician, in a day when you could be all three."The building has a "dramatic coffered ceiling in the lobby" and a French sheetmetal mansard, cornice, entablature, exterior masonry, and terracotta. It included a ground-floor wood storefront that was once a "Ladies Reception Hall" and an "opulent" basement cafe. "Ornate wood paneling and trim" was included throughout the building.The Cornelius served as a bathhouse for gay men in the 1960s and 1970s, and was then empty for years. There were plans to renovate the building, owned by Portland developer Tom Moyer, as a business hotel in recent years following a period where it was home to vagrants for many years after the 1980s.In 2002, TMT Development purchased the property for $2.4 million with plans to renovate the building. The company applied with the city to tear down the structure.".