The Heathman Hotel Portland

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Unabashedly classic in spirit, the Heathman has always been a storied actor in the city’s artistic conversation due to its location in the heart of Portland’s cultural district. The hotel is not only adjacent to but also physically connected with the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall which is home to the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and hosts an array of live performances year-round. In the hotel’s early years from the 1930’s to the 1950’s, the Heathman’s mezzanine was home to the studios of Portland radio station KOIN. Within those studios, described as the finest in the country, the station boasted a roster of musicians and entertainers larger than all other local stations combined and, from their transmitters high above the nearby West Hills, they beamed their signal as far as California, Nevada and Idaho. More recently, it has hosted a literary who’s who throughout the years and amassed a 2,700-volume library of works signed by the authors that includes texts and novels by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, past Presidents and U.S. Poet Laureates. This storied creative heritage provided inspiration for the hotel’s new Interior design created by Jackie McGee and her team at Perkins + Will.