Hallock and Day Company ledger
Scope and Contents
The Hallock and Day Company ledger is an account book of final entry, in which business transactions of the company were recorded. The ledger also includes transactions related to the construction of the Hallock and McMillan building, Portland, in 1857.
Dates
- 1853-1859
Creator
- Hallock and McMillan (Organization)
- Hallock, Absalom B. , 1826-1892 (Person)
- Hallock and Day Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Absalom Barrett Hallock (1822-1892) and Lou Day were early Portland, Oregon architects. Hallock was also a general contractor. In addition to houses and commercial buildings, Hallock & Day designed the beaux-arts Portland Penitentiary Building in 1855. The pair worked together on projects until the partnership dissolved in 1860.
Hallock established his own business headquarters in 1857 at Southwest Front and Oak Streets in Portland, where he had his office until he retired twenty-three years later. Together with William McMillan, he designed and built a two-story structure on the site with cast iron columns supporting three arches on the façade and cast iron shutters protecting the second-story casement windows. The Hallock-McMillan Building, stripped of its cast iron, is now the oldest commercial building in Portland.
Source: The Oregon Encylcopedia (https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/hallock_absolom)
Extent
0.1 linear feet (1 container) : 1 volume
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Hallock and Day Company was a partnership between Portland, Oregon architect and contractor Absalom Barrett Hallock and architect Lou Day. The ledger is an account book of final entry, in which business transactions of the company were recorded.
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing including minimal to no organization and rehousing.
Description information is drawn in part from information supplied with the collection and initial surveys of the contents.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Account books Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Architects -- Oregon -- Portland Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Architectural firms -- Oregon -- Portland Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Businesses and Corporations Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Construction industry -- Northwest, Pacific Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Day, Lou
- Title
- Guide to the Hallock and Day Company Ledger
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- University of Oregon Libraries, Archivists' Toolkit Project Team, Amanda Steele, and Chasmodai Cassidy
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
