Herman S. Brookman was a prominent architect in Portland

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

, Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

, United States. His work includes the Commodore Hotel

Commodore Hotel (Portland, Oregon)

The Commodore Hotel is an Art Deco-style hotel in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was built in 1925 by Herman Brookman, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Commodore Hotel became the home of KTBR radio beginning on November 12, 1927 when the station moved from 393½ Yamhill...

, the Frank M. Lloyd Estate (1926), the Alan and Barbara Goldsmith House (1959), the Victor and Marta Jorgensen House (1929), and the Grace Kern House (1955).

John Yeon

John Yeon

John Yeon was an American architect in Portland, Oregon, in the twentieth century. He is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regionalist Style of Modernism...

 trained in his office. The Harry A. Green estate

Bitar Mansion

Bitar Mansion, also known as Harry A. Green House, is a mansion in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. The and 17 room structure was designed by architect Herman Brookman and built in 1927 for $410,000, equivalent to $ today. The Mediterranean-style house contains a...

designed by Brookman was put up for sale in 2006.

External links

• Guide to the Herman Brookman Architecture Files circa 1923-1940s
• Herman Brookman photographs, c. 1923-1940s Historic Photograph Collections, University of Oregon