Bay E, West Ankeny Car Barns

The West Ankeny Car Barns Bay E is a former streetcar carbarn in Portland, Oregon, that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.  Completed in 1911, it was one of three buildings that collectively made up the Ankeny Car Barns complex  of the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P), the owner and operator of Portland's streetcar system at the time.  By 1978, the brick building had become the only surviving structure from the Ankeny complex and one of only two surviving remnants of carbarn complexes of the Portland area's large street railway and interurban system of the past, the other being the PRL&P's Sellwood Division Carbarn Office and Clubhouse.

The original Ankeny carbarn was built in 1892 by the City and Suburban Railway Company, one of PRL&P's predecessors.  It was located at 24th and East Burnside, but after fire destroyed it in 1894 it was rebuilt at 28th and East Burnside, on the east side of 28th.  The complex was expanded in 1901 and 1910 through the construction of additional buildings, including Bays D and E, located west of 28th Avenue between Burnside and Couch streets.  The building known then as Bay E was last used by streetcars in the early 1950s and was sold in 1954 to Bitar Brothers.  It was eventually converted into an office building, and is known as the Burnside Trolley Building (with address of 2705 E. Burnside Street).

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Northeast Portland, Oregon

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Category:1911 establishments in Oregon
Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1911
Category:Kerns, Portland, Oregon
Category:Northeast Portland, Oregon
Category:Transport infrastructure completed in 1911
Category:Portland Historic Landmarks
Category:Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
Category:Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon
Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Portland, Oregon