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The garden was designed by Professor Takuma Tono, in 1963, one of the most important Japanese landscape architects of his time.
Portland, OR.
We went to Vista Bridge to photograph the super moon recently, but it was very cloudy. Here is a standard view of the city from the bridge. HDR Image.
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Fort Williams Park
Portland, Maine
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Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Head_Light
Taken at Portland Bill in Dorset with my Nikon D3300 camera
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What would turn out to be the last year of swapping trains off the Portland Secondary btween DL PT-97 and the NS H-76 local. April 2017.
I wrote a history of this house several years ago for credit in a university course on documenting historical properties. This entailed, among other things, researching the house's owners and renters and writing brief biographies of each.
What follows is the abridged version of my biography of the man for whom the house was built in 1910.
Until the city of Portland revised its street system in the early 1930s, this house was at 624 Halsey Street.
At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, it was the convention to refer to men not by their first and last names but by the initials of their first and middle names and their surname. I can still remember the delight I felt when I finally came across a source that gave W. T. Branch's first and middle names.
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William Tully Branch (26 October 1836-June 1921)
In July, 1909, when William Tully “W.T.” Branch took title to the lot in Holladay’s Addition where he would build the house at 624 Halsey street, he was 72 years old.
Searches of publicly available documents have yielded little information about Branch’s first four decades. However, from 1884 to 1891, Branch worked for a hardware company as a bookkeeper.
Perhaps because of his accounting expertise, in 1891 W.T. was drafted to run for the office of city auditor and clerk. Branch was elected to a two-year term on June 15, 1891.
When he failed to win re-election in 1893, W.T.
returned to his field, bookkeeping and accounting.
A local Republican powerbroker brought Branch back into city politics in 1900, and he was elected to represent the 4th Ward on Portland’s city council, then known as the Common Council.
As a councilmember, W.T. distinguished himself through his accounting acumen and his work as chair of the ways and means committee.
Though some expected Branch would go on to serve another term, in the end he did not run in the June, 1902, election.
After leaving City Hall, Branch established an accounting practice and served as president of a local electrical company from 1902 to 1903.
For reasons not discovered in this research, W. T. Branch resided in Tacoma, Washington, from 1904 to 1908; the city directories do not give an occupation.
During his sojourn in Tacoma, W.T. made at least
eight overnight visits to Portland. More importantly, during that time, Branch purchased and sold investment real estate in Portland, as he had been doing intermittently since at least 1889 and would continue doing until 1919.´´
In multiple real-estate transactions during those years, W.T. Branch paid at least $66,260 to purchase land and sold real property for a total of $13,350.
Between 1893 and 1908, W.T. also earned an income
stream from auditing engagements involving municipalities, public bodies, troubled businesses and private parties.
Searches of Portland-area newspapers show that W. T.
Branch was active in several churches and faith-based organizations from 1885 to 1915.
Branch died in Los Angeles in June 30, 1921, about four months short of his 84th birthday.
On July 20, 1909, Eleanor Harding, a widow, sold W. T. Branch the land where he would build his house.
Two months later, the Oregonian reported that Branch had received a permit to build a “two-story frame dwelling,” which the Herdman Brothers contractors were to build for $9,000.
In October of the same year, the newspaper, which
was following construction activity on the East Side, mentioned Branch’s project twice in the space of a week.
One item was preceded by the observation that “some beautiful homes are being erected”30 in Irvington and Holladay Park.
The other bore the headline “Many Handsome Homes Planned.” Both pieces stated the home’s cost and its dimensions; one even described interior details:
“The first floor will be finished with quarter-sawed oak flooring and oak finish. Birch doors, highly polished, and enamel finish will be used in the second floor.”
After this short series of items, the Oregonian,did not mention Branch and 624 Halsey in the same piece again.
The only indication that W. T. occupied the house was his entry in the 1911 city directory, which listed him at the Halsey Street address.
On June 12, 1911, just under two years from the date he acquired the property, W. T. Branch and his wife Ellen deeded it to John and Mary Carmody.
W. T. Branch was then about three months short of his 75th birthday. The house was then less than two years old.
Although this is slightly out of order (I took this with the timer in the car park at Portland Bill lighthouse), it seemed a good plan to use it as this week's Selfie Sunday shot!
It's my birthday today, so we are going out for a meal in the posh looking restaurant that's recently opened on South Parade Pier! Hope to get some photos out there today!
I went out to Peninsula Jct. in Portland last weekend to try to finish ATCS Mon decodes for the diamond, and happened across a Peninsula Terminal Co. train waiting to return to home rails after having interchanged with UP at Barnes Yard.
Here at North Portland Jct., the Peninsula Terminal job had just returned to home rails and slowly heads back towards their yard.
Downtown Portland, seen out my passenger-side car window while stopped at an intersection.
May 31, 2017.
Portland, OR From the Friday September 1st SE PDX PhotoWalk; next PdxNightOwls SE PhotoWalk Friday September 8th. NB57082
One of the many dragon boats set up for the Portland dragon boat races. Many crews were practicing this night, lucky some were docked at this marina new downtown Portland, Oregon.
HDR image of the Portland, Oregon skyline during the Waterfront Blues Festival, Fourth of July weekend, 2008. On the right, Hawthorne Bridge.
Fort Williams Park
Portland, Maine
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Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Head_Light
You are melody in numbers
I took this photo while the Vaux's swifts were amassing around Chapman Elementary School in Portland, as they do every September. Here is a 1600 pixel version
I found a Youtube video where you can watch the impressive tornado of birds spiraling into the chimney. And another.