In Portland’s competitive market, compelling backstories help sell houses
Updated Mar 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Staging and stories are meant to help potential buyers feel at home. 8128 S.W. 2nd Ave. in Portland is listed by Sophia Rosenberg of the Hasson Company. Christopher Dibble
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Homes being put up for sale are not only getting makeovers but a story about their past to lure in potential buyers. Some dwellings even get a telling name: The Principal’s House. The Iconic Woodstock House. Walter.
The new owner of a 1935 Georgian Colonial in Portland’s Grant Park neighborhood will not only know its name, the William A. Haseltine House, but also receive pieces of its history: The original blueprints and a bound catalog of the hardware baron’s Haseltine products.
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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