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Built in 1906, the sprawling residence features a distinctive French Renaissance Revival-style and is filled with endless, elegant features throughout both the interior and exterior.
Photo courtesy: LIVLUX Real Estate
The mansion was one of the largest residences built in Denver at the time, and also home to the Hill family, who were elite socialites in the city. The 20, 205 sq. ft. home includes 6 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, as well as a large ballroom, grand dining room and a two-level foyer with a grand staircase serving a the focal point.
Various members of the Hill family lived there until 1942, until it became impossible for them to maintain.
Photo courtesy: LIVLUX Real Estate
Built in 1906, the sprawling residence features a distinctive French Renaissance Revival-style and is filled with endless, elegant features throughout both the interior and exterior.
Photo courtesy: LIVLUX Real Estate
The mansion was one of the largest residences built in Denver at the time, and also home to the Hill family, who were elite socialites in the city. The 20, 205 sq. ft. home includes 6 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, as well as a large ballroom, grand dining room and a two-level foyer with a grand staircase serving a the focal point.
Various members of the Hill family lived there until 1942, until it became impossible for them to maintain.
Southeast Portland’s ‘Versailles’ mansion is for sale at $2.85 million
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
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Portland’s economy was booming at the turn of the last century, fueled by newcomers lured in by the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and longtime land barons filling fields with much-needed housing.
As more than a quarter-million passengers on city streetcars crossed the Willamette River each day to work and shop, newly minted electricians were busy wiring homes and installing simple refrigerators into cottages and Craftsman bungalows.
Wealthy residents were busy, too, erecting storied estates during the city’s golden era of architecture.
In 1914, publisher and entrepreneur Henry Pittock’s mansion, a French Renaissance Revival-style chateau, rose on a northwest bluff overlooking the young city.