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The North Bank Depot Buildings, located in central Portland, Oregon, United States, are a pair of buildings formerly used as a freight warehouse and passenger terminal for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SP&S). Formed in 1905, the SP&S was commonly known as the North Bank Road (or North Bank road, "road" being short for railroad) during the period in which these buildings were in use. The Portland buildings' passenger facilities were also used by the Oregon Electric Railway after that railway was acquired by the SP&S. Located in what is now known as the Pearl District, the buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. They were in use by the SP&S and its successor, Burlington Northern Railroad, from 1908 until the 1980s. The structures are two matching, two-story brick buildings that face one another on opposite sides of NW 11th Avenue at Hoyt Street. Only the east building was used as a passenger station, and this usage lasted from 1908 until 1931. The two former-SP&S freighthouses were renovated in the late 1990s, and converted for residential use.