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Mount Hood’s Steiner Cabins Are One of Oregon’s Great Architectural Treasures And You Can Rent One for the Weekend Working entirely by hand, Steiner and his family built more than 100 log homes and buildings. (Christine Dong) Updated September 20, 2017
Henry Steiner could ve raised pigs near Oregon City, but he didn t like pigs all that much. Instead, at the turn of the 20th century, he learned how to build cabins and flood dams in the Cascade Foothills. For the rest of his life, and working entirely by hand, Steiner and his family built more than 100 log homes and buildings now recognized as architectural treasures.
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.