The U.S. General Services Administration announced this week that an historic courthouse in downtown Portland will be sold.

The Gus J. Solomon Courthouse Building, 620 S.W. Main St., was designed between 1929 and 1931 and opened in 1933. Portland architect Morris H. Whitehouse designed the steel frame and reinforced concrete building with its art deco interior and sandstone veneer. It took on the name of U.S. District Court Judge Gus Solomon in 1989; Solomon served on the court for 37 years; then the longest term of any Oregon judge.

Earlier this year, the General Services Administration, or GSA, released a list of about 40 government buildings that were set to go on sale, including buildings in the District of Columbia, California, Washington and more. The Solomon Courthouse was listed alongside the James A. Redden U.S. Courthouse in Medford.

The sale of buildings is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to vastly alter the federal government. “GSA is focused on rightsizing the federal real estate portfolio to reduce the burden on the American taxpayer while also delivering space that enables its agency customers to achieve their missions,” according to the GSA website. “This initiative aims to engage the market, attract interested parties and inform strategies that will expedite the disposition of federal assets, consistent with all applicable laws.”

No asking price is listed.

KOIN 6 News, a media partner of the Tribune, reports that the GSA “will avoid over $76 million in potential capital expenditures to modernize the 90-year-old building for continued office use.”

The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

No longer an active courthouse, over the years it has housed, among other things, congressional offices, a post office, branches of the military and the U.S. Secret Service.

Editor’s note: Medford’s Redden Courthouse was named for the father of Jim Redden, longtime Tribune reporter.