Everyone loves downtown Portland’s “Elk” statue, which is why its recent removal from its Main Street perch has led to such consternation. Fear not, the swirling theories about “Elk ...

Portland Architecture Blog Visits the Elk Statue in Storage, Confirms It Wasn’t Actually Destroyed by Protesters “The suggestion was that an angry mob sought to destroy the statue as vengeance ...

The Elk Statue in downtown Portland was removed after protesters set fire to the base, severely damaging it, July 2, 2020 (KOIN) The Elk Statue in downtown Portland. On the left, a file photo.

The Thompson Elk statue — so named because former Portland Mayor David Thompson gifted it in 1900 — was a landmark and water source located between Chapman and Lownsdale squares, across from ...

After the Thompson elk was damaged during the political protests of 2020, the Portland Regional Arts and Culture Council brought Krueger in to see if the statue was fixable. “It’s kind of an ...

The makeshift metal elk has stood in place of the iconic 120-year-old elk statue now safeguarded by the city after a fire was set to its base on July 1. The city removed the statue that had sat ...

Portland’s iconic Thompson Elk Fountain remains on schedule to return to its downtown pedestal in one year, the Portland Parks Foundation told the Portland City Council at Wednesday’s meeting.

Protesters tagged the elk statue during downtown Portland protests on May 29, but crews removed the graffiti the next morning. The area has been the site of ongoing nightly protests since then.

The Elk has been resurrected—though not the actual, 120-year-old bronze statue that was removed from downtown over the summer. Instead, it's another makeshift monument Portland anti-fascists ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Thompson Elk Statue will return next summer, in 2025, after it went through extensive damage back in 2020 during racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd.