Historic Portland homes for sale: Gilded fixtures and Beverly Cleary rumors included OregonLive.com 2/20/2021 Janet Eastman, oregonlive.com
Every house has a story, especially really old dwellings. Imagine how many souls have swept through a 1903 Neoclassical-style mansion or a 1914 English Jacobethan? What lingers behind beyond the spirit of residents’ past? Their taste in wallpaper and other fixtures that stayed once the occupants vanished.
In this week’s real estate gallery, we look at historic Portland-area homes for sale and tease out the facts and the rumors.
The Portland mansion Beverly Cleary called haunted is for sale at $4,995,000: Frank C. Barnes, who was a leader in the Pacific Northwest salmon packing industry, carved out about three blocks from his land holdings to create a compound in 1914 for his large family.
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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.
On the market: Two houses on one lot can shelter extra family, home offices or paying tenants
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
2264 N.W. Kearney St. in Portland’s Northwest District is listed by Kathleen O’Donnell of O’Donnell Group Realty.O’Donnell Group Realty
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Families housing multi generations and people working at home who want privacy are finding that a residential property with a main residence and a smaller, self-contained apartment can serve their needs.
Advocates and real estate agents say a legal, compact second home adds to the property’s value and can pay for itself over time, by consolidating family finances or drawing rental income.