A 1912 iron foundry you can sleep in
Twenty-eight rooms on SE 3rd, a wood-fired kitchen five nights a week, and a desk that answers at 3 a.m.
Pacific Iron Works poured ship hardware on this floor
For seventy-five years the foundry cast cleats and hawsepipes for Columbia River hulls. We kept the brick, the timber, and the freight elevator. Then we put in twenty-eight rooms with private baths and blackout lining that actually holds.
- Private bath in every room
- Front desk staffed 24 hours
- The Charge, Wed to Sun
- Gated lot on SE 3rd, $18
- 6 minutes on foot to the river
- Check-in 3pm · out by 11am
Queens, lofts, and suites with doors that close
Nightly rates before 15.3% Portland tax and the $18 destination fee. Two-night minimum on Friday and Saturday arrivals.
Foundry Queen · 2 guests
Clay Queen
From $245 / night
278 sq ft on the alley side. The quietest of the twelve queens, and the one people book for work weeks.
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Loft King · 2 guests
Loft 12
From $310 / night
Steel stair to a king on the mezzanine, sofa below, and the longest west light in the building in winter.
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Loft King · 2 guests
Truss King
From $310 / night
The biggest loft. A timber truss over the bed, north light, and a soaking tub instead of a rain shower.
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Suite · 3 guests
Corner East
From $520 / night
Sitting room, king behind a sliding timber door, and a sofa that is a real bed for a third person.
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Wood fire, five nights
Chef Marisol Vega runs a short Pacific Northwest menu in the old ovens, Wednesday through Sunday, 5:30 to 10. Hotel guests get a table held until 7 and a late plate until 11.
A street with trucks on it
Central Eastside is still zoned for making things. The Esplanade is six minutes west, the Orange Line eight, and coffee on East Burnside twelve. The desk times it from the door.
A person, every hour of the year
Bags go in the hold before check-in. Late checkout is $45 when the next guest is not already on the books. Call at 3 a.m. and someone picks up.
Empty for twenty-six years
The last heat was 1987. The brick held, the roof did not. Conversion started in 2014 and the hotel opened in 2016, still independent, still an iron building.
A look inside
Rooms, baths, the lobby, and the kitchen. Tap a photo to enlarge it.
Every named room has its own photo, size, and outlook on the Rooms page.
Notes we did not write
“The iron window looks onto the foundry roof, and I have stopped trying to explain why that is the view I wanted.”
“I order the trout the way other people order coffee. The room upstairs is just logistics.”
“The nine-foot desk is not a joke. The desk remembered our 5 a.m. cab two years later. Would skip Third Ave Queen, though; the elevator is not subtle.”
The pour floor is lit. Pick your dates.
Book on the hotel’s own engine. Tax and the $18 fee show before you pay, and the key waits at the desk with a marked map of the district.