Longest Black-owned business in Oregon joins the National Historic Register

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – A northeast Portland enterprise has designed it onto the U.S. Nationwide Register of Historic Places. Dean’s Beauty Salon and Barber Store at 213 NE Hancock is the longest constantly operated Black-owned business enterprise in the Point out of Oregon.

Previous Point out Senator Margaret Carter and Kim Moreland of Oregon Black Pioneers supplied the investigation for this historical designation They say Dean’s has been an anchor of financial enhancement in the neighborhood.

Benjamin and Mary Rose Dean started off the business enterprise in 1956. Because then, numerous of the companies on NE Hancock road have remaining but Dean’s has continuously furnished work and a perception of local community for the community.

These days the business enterprise is operate by Kimberly Brown. She is the granddaughter of the few who opened Dean’s Natural beauty Salon and Barber Store. She says she hopes to continue to keep the store open as extensive as she can mainly because it serves as a put where men and women in the local community can network and share methods as perfectly as tips.

Brown retains pics of the men and women who have supported the business enterprise above the many years on the shop’s wall. Some have long gone on to come to be well known. AC Green who performed basketball for the Oregon Condition Beavers and Los Angeles Lakers is one who grew up in the community acquiring his hair slash at Dean’s.

Xfinity is planning a block get together in front of the store Saturday, July 23, for all the buyers who have kept Dean’s Magnificence Salon and Barber Shop profitable above nearly 70 many years.

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