Hawthorne Asylum

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Hawthorne Asylum
Entrance, 2021
Entrance, 2021
LocationPortland, Oregon, U.S.
Hawthorne Asylum is located in Portland, Oregon
Hawthorne Asylum
Hawthorne Asylum
Coordinates: 45°30′46″N 122°39′18″W / 45.51278°N 122.65500°W / 45.51278; -122.65500

The Hawthorne Asylum is a food cart pod in the Hawthrone District of Portland, Oregon, United States. There are more than 20 carts, as of April 2021.[1] The pod also has picnic tables and fire pits.[2]

The food cart pod opened in February 2019 and was named after the Oregon Hospital for the Insane and its co-founder (and also the district's namesake) James C. Hawthorne.[3][4] Approximately a dozen carts were burglarized in January 2021.[5] Vendors have included:

Reception

Pete Cottell of Willamette Week wrote, "Named after a 19th-century hospital for the mentally ill, the pod looks like what might happen if Tim Burton were commissioned to design a Portland-themed section of Disneyland."[14]

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