1705 SW 11th Ave, corner of SW Mill St. and 11th Ave.  

45.513561, -122.686831 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Art object near the entrance. Cobblestone with a question mark
Word before the question mark
Europe

Historical background

Cobbletale is a piece of landscape artwork made of 4,000 old cobblestones, located in the PSU West Hall courtyard. During preparations for West Hall construction those stones were unearthed from their old place along old streetcar route on Southwest 11th street. Portland streetcar was extremely popular in the beginning of 20th century, before closure on 1958 automobile bum. Ironically Cobbletale installation was created in 1992 — 10 years before modern Portland streetcar was reborn. Jerry Mayer hand-cleaned over 6,000 cobblestones with a hammer and a scrub brush to make perfect match. The rest of 2,000 unused cobblestones were returned to the city's storage. Several stones have sandblast-engraved names of places that allude whole path of the basalt journey from inside Mt. St. Helens to its cooling and eventual quarry site near the Columbia River — and finally, to the streets of Portland.

Present in routes of categories Lion, Lion-Mini, Horseman

Passed by: 53/55 (96%).

By categories:

  • Horseman: 6/6 (100%)
  • Lion: 27/29 (93%)
  • Lion-Mini: 20/20 (100%)