The Fried-Durkheimer House Rehabilitation and Office Conversion

Arciform moves and completely restores one of Portland's rare surviving 1880 Italianate homes.

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The Fried-Durkheimer House (1st Morris Marks House)

The Fried-Durkheimer House, Built 1880, Moved 2017, SW Broadway Dr, Portland, Oregon.

After a night in the Park Blocks, the two halves (Morris & Marks) crossed SW Broadway & approached their final destination.

Oxbo Mega Transport painstakingly lifted & hauled the two halves to their new site.

The 1st Morris Marks House was built in 1880 for Morris & Annie Marks. In 2017, it was saved & moved, then restoration began.

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places & is now called the Fried-Durkheimer House.

Italianate details include tall, narrow double hung windows with split arched tops and quoining at the corners of the house.

Decorative corbels at the eaves were restored when possible or replicated by hand by our skilled carpenters.

The parlour boasts a bay window with a segmental arch and a restored marble fireplace surround.

The original marble fireplace surround was painstakingly restored by site lead Jack Ouska.

Our team restored original features like the curved main stairway with niche.

Built in 1880, the Fried-Durkheimer House (also known as the 1st Morris Marks House) served as a single family home for two decades. For 100 years after, it was operated as a boarding house and apartments. ARCIFORM helped to save it from demolition and moved to its new site in 2017. It is one of the last Italianate town homes still standing in Portland and is now on the National Register of Historic Places, listed as the Fried-Durkheimer House.


This beautiful Italianate town home was built for Polish shoe merchant Morris Marks and his wife Annie in 1880. The Marks family sold the property to Moses and Fanny Fried, and it remained in their family from 1882-1901, passed down to daughter Delia and her husband Julius Durkheimer. Subsequent owners ran the house as a boarding home or apartments, and it later fell into disrepair, vacant with evidence of squatters, in the early 2000s.


Invested in by passionate local preservationists Karen Karlsson, Rich Michaelson and Richard De Wolf, the house went through a complex process to be relocated and restored the house. In 2017, the house was carefully sawn into two pieces, mounted on wheels, and began the journey to its new site on SW Broadway Dr at SW Grant St.