Here's What the Gas & Coke Building Looks Like Now

Earlier this week, a Portland photographer snuck onto the Gas & Coke Building demolition site.

Utility company NW Natural is in the final stages of tearing down the 102-year-old Gas and Coke Building.

The demolition was announced in September, ending a two-year campaign by historical preservationists to save the abandoned building in Northwest Portland.

NW Natural, which owns the building and surrounding property, agreed in December 2013 it would leave the building standing as a ruin if activists could raise $2 million to save it. They raised only $4,000.

Here's what the building looked like in 2013, when the last-ditch campaign to save it began.

Gas & Coke Building (Photo by Aaron Mesh). Gas & Coke Building (Photo by Aaron Mesh).

Earlier this week, a Portland photographer snuck onto the Gas & Coke Building demolition site. He took several photo of the tear-down, using a Canon EOS Rebel T3 camera.

The photographer, who asked to remain anonymous because he trespassed on NW Natural property, touched up the first photo in this series to increase contrast. The rest are unaltered.

They show the final remains of the Gas & Coke Building before it is completely leveled.

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