Meriel Bernhard was married in the church in 1967, back when it was still owned by the same German congregation that had it built in the early 1900s.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Just a few days into 2023, smoke and fire filled the sky in downtown Portland as a historic church that had stood at the corner of Southwest 10th and Clay for more than a century went up in flames.
Three days after the building was gutted by fire, demolition crews brought the church’s charred shell crashing to the ground.
The church building had been vacant for years. Its last tenant was the Portland
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