Revolution Hall, Music venue in Buckman neighborhood, Portland, US
Revolution Hall is a performance venue inside the former Washington High School building in southeast Portland, Oregon. It has a main auditorium with original wooden seating and several smaller rooms that host different types of events throughout the building.
The building opened in 1924 as the auditorium of Washington High School and served the school until it closed in 1981. After sitting empty for decades, it was renovated and reopened as a performance venue in 2015.
Revolution Hall keeps the wooden seats of the 1924 Washington High School auditorium, and the building's school past is still legible in its corridors. The venue won the "Best Patio" category in Willamette Week's Best of Portland Readers' Poll 2020 and placed second for "Best Music Venue" the same year.
The venue sits in southeast Portland and is easy to reach by public transit. It has two bars and a rooftop deck that may be open outside of main events, but opening hours depend on what is scheduled, so checking ahead is always a good idea.
Revolution Hall won the "Best Patio" category and placed second for "Best Music Venue" in Willamette Week's "Best of Portland Readers' Poll 2020." Scenes for a Battle of the Bands in the 2022 film Metal Lords were shot in the auditorium. The original wooden school seats were kept during the renovation.
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