Before closing on June 17, 2007, Club Portland was believed to be the largest bathhouse on the West Coast of the United States and was regarded as a "Stark Street icon of sorts".

[2] Writing for Just Out, Stephen Marc Beaudoin describe the final moments of the club as a place that "had become something of a Stark Street eyesore in its waning years".

According to Willamette Week, the club was "often blamed by public health officials and other community leaders as partly responsible for new waves of HIV and STD infections, though those accusations were near-impossible to prove".

[2] Just Out magazine and a McMenamins marketing director toured the shuttered club guided by a construction supervisor for the project.

when the bathhouse called it quits, leaving highly private records—containing members’ and employees’ full contact information and, sometimes, copies of their driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and other identification—vulnerable to theft and duplication.Additionally, the guide told them his crew found 100–150 hypodermic needles.