Last night I walked from 52nd to 42nd, Holgate North to Gladstone, and all the streets in between.
Holgate started off normally enough, a mish-mosh of pre-to-mid-century infill, a few bungalows, some craftsmen here and there. But when I walked up Boise, wow - it was like stepping back into 1890. A very wide street, comprised of several victorians of the queen anne and italianate varieties, (one of which is a mansion to be sure), a few craftsmen, four-squares, etc, many on large lots, possibly a view, and definitely that old-tyme platted feeling. I'd love to know the history of Boise at 44th - I suspect it's the Kenilworth contingent of Creston Kenilworth, as that's the crux of the victorian area. I pulled this from Wikipedia: "According to Portland Parks & Recreation, the Kenilworth neighborhood was platted in 1889 and is "named after Sir Walter Scott's 1821 novel Kenilworth, a romantic novel set in Elizabethan England. Many of the streets in the neighborhood took their names from this novel and other novels by Scott."[1]"
The tracts are Ivanhoe (victorians), and Lenox (all else), and the prices run $169 to $469K. Here's a Map.
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| The lone MCM |
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| At the base of Boise/42nd, I start to notice victorians. |
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| *Find of the Day* |
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