SMILE, The Sellwood-Moreland Improvement League neighborhood association -- one of 95 recognized neighborhood associations in Portland -- owns its own building, SMILE Station, S.E. 13th and Tenino in Sellwood, just a block south of Tacoma Street.
This building, which has heat-pump heating and cooling, and its own industrially-equipped kitchen, with chairs and tables to seat close to 100 UPSTAIRS, is available to rent for groups seeking a venue. The fully remodelled downstairs Hainley Meeting Room, seating about 16 with tables, a kitchenette, and a bathroom, is available for rent downstairs. SMILE also acts as renting agent for Oaks Pioneer Church, at S.E. Spokane Street at Grand, just north of the east end of the Sellwood Bridge -- the historic and picturesque church is available for meetings, concerts, weddings, and other events.
For more information on renting either facility, call SMILE Station at 503/234-3570. (It will sound like you've called the church, but you have the right number...hang on for the last voicemail option.) Leave SMILE Station Manager Christine Timberlake a message and she will return your call!
For more details about Oaks Pioneer Church specifically -- which is one of only two structures listed on the National Historic Register in Sellwood and Westmoreland -- visit: www.OaksPioneerChurch.org.