The cast iron now installed at Darcelle XV Plaza is there because it was saved by Jerry Bosco and Ben Milligan, a gay couple who salvaged a lot of the artifacts from historic Portland buildings being demolished.
They both died of AIDS in the late 1980s. www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/bos...
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The Bosco-Milligan Foundation of Portland was founded in 1987 by Jerry Bosco and Ben Milligan to protect their collection of architectural elements and to furt…
