Longtime Portland retailer Eleanor Chown helps a customer at the original Chown Showcase in Jantzen Beach during the 1970s. The store, which now occupies a prime Pearl District-area spot and is ...

Fred Chown runs one of the oldest family-owned architectural hardware companies in North America. He talked to Oregon Business about the challenges and secrets to staying in business for 137 years.

Portland design-build firm Arciform, which specializes in vintage and historic home improvements, is hosting a free kitchen design workshop Oct. 11 at the Chown Hardware Showroom in Northwest Portland ...

Chown Hardware has two showrooms, this one in Portland and one in Bellevue, Wash. It also has to be familiar with the business regulations in about 10 other cities where it does installations and ...

Vanderbilt‘s integration with Allegion provides a cost-effective solution to meet evolving security needs Vanderbilt, a provider of state-of-the-art security systems, announced the integration of its ...