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6705 Southeast 14th Avenue
Portland, OR
97202
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Wilhelm's Portland Memorial began as the Portland Cremation Association – the Northwest’s first cremation association. The cornerstone was placed February 5, 1901 in the still-existing historic chapel structure. Today, Wilhelm’s offers 8 stories and over 5 miles of corridors of carefully preserved architecture and elegance. It is one of the few, if not only, mausoleums of its size in the country. The mausoleum has many pieces of stained-glass art that were designed, constructed, and installed by the famed Povey brothers and Gerlich & Louis C. Tiffany. The mausoleum also has a variety of marble statuary hand carved from Carrara marble at the Taverelli Studios in Italy and most of the marble fronts on the crypts and niches come from Italy as well. Our most famous statuary is one of three exact re-creations of Michelangelo’s famous Pieta’, which weighs close to 7,000 lbs. and was carved by the Taverelli Studios in 1969 from marble from the same Italian quarry where Michelangelo carved the Pieta’ in 1499.
The more than 100-year-old vision of the local citizens who started Portland Memorial is still alive in the majestic walkways of granite and marble and the many peaceful areas within the mausoleum serving as a final resting place for thousands of Oregonians.
