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.

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 ...

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.