Masonry Magazine February 1971 Page. 12
Reedwood Friends Church now graces Portland's famous old Lambert Gardens site.
Masonry Enhances Church Architecture
Project: Reedwood Friends Church, Portland, Oregon
Architect: Donald H. Lindgren, AΑ.Ι.Α.
General Contractor: R. A. Gray Company
Structural Engineer: Donald R. Kramer & Associates
Mason Contractor: Walter Hanson Masonry
One of Portland's newest and most effective uses of masonry in church architecture is the Reedwood Friends Church, located on a portion of the famous old Lambert Gardens site. Designed to retain as much as possible of the original trees and plantings, this edifice blends pleasantly with the fine residential area it serves.
The floor plan contains 28,000 square feet with a structure of masonry, frame and reinforced concrete. The sanctuary and chapel portion of the building consists of 6" SCR white brick on all the exterior walls. The roof is constructed of glu-laminated beams supported by reinforced exposed aggregate pilasters. Exposed natural wood decking makes up the roof framing, with composition shingles. The educational and office wing of the building is white Norman brick veneer over frame walls. The basement ceiling consists of long-span steel joists and concrete deck with wood-trussed rafters over the roof section covered with composition shingles.
Above, a view from the sanctuary shows the dignified appearance of the tall, white brick wall behind the altar.
Left, natural wood ceiling and laminated wood beams blend harmoniously with the white brick walls in the chapel.
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February, 1971