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This Irvington residence—set on one of the neighborhood’s most self-conscious streets—offers a near-textbook example of early 20th-century Portland ambition expressed in wood, shingle, and column.
Its disciplined, almost foursquare mass is overlaid with Craftsman textures and crowned, somewhat insistently, by a classical porch that aspires to temple status. Bay windows swell outward, gables multiply, and a diamond pane makes its cameo, each gesture perfectly defensible and collectively a touch breathless.
Built when bourgeois respectability was not merely acceptable but aspirational, the house reads as a declaration: its owners meant to be seen, placed, and properly understood. One imagines a household fully enrolled in the city’s social machinery, business, lodge, and pew—while embracing the newer comforts and stylistic freedoms of the Pacific Coast.
I’m looking forward to putting a name—and a narrative—to it using the pre- and post-renumbering street directories. Irvington rarely disappoints when you follow the paper trail.
What’s striking here is how close the house comes to tipping into incoherence—and how decisively it pulls back. The underlying mass is disciplined, the proportions sound, the junctions clean. Nothing feels tacked on or improvised. Even where the styles collide, they do so with a kind of confidence: details repeat, materials transition deliberately, and the whole suggests drawings rather than on-site invention. This is not a builder rummaging through a catalogue of effects. It is a scheme that was *thought through*.
And yet, it stops just short of real architectural authority. A stronger hand would have edited, subordinated, chosen a single governing idea and enforced it. Instead, the house accumulates—classical formality, Craftsman texture, multiple emphases—each well understood, none quite denied. The result is not the confusion of the modern McMansion, where elements are misread, but something subtler: **a house that knows exactly what it is doing and declines to stop doing it**. Whether the product of a compliant architect or an ambitious pattern-book design, it reads as a client’s wishes generously—and perhaps too generously—honored.
Read it and weep:
3/24/2026 Sold $1,646,000
+21.9%
$347/sqft
3/3/2026 Pending sale $1,350,000
$285/sqft
2/26/2026 Listed for sale $1,350,000
+47.5%
$285/sqft
2/25/2016 Sold $915,000
$193/sqft
Amtrak Dash 8 510 leads the northbound Coast Starlight out of Portland, an hour and 37 minutes late. The presence of the P42 in the pepsi can scheme is somewhat ironic, a scheme (once) unique to the Dash 8 trailing behind a Dash 8 in regular colors. Irony aside, I was happy to get a better shot of a Dash 8 leading, not to mention happy to get out of the house after spending 3 weeks sick with mononucleosis. This was one of the first things I did after getting over the illness, and just walking around outside and climbing up ballast had me huffing and puffing, funny how 3 weeks of being bed ridden will do that to you. Considering Amtrak's ongoing equipment problems and the unreliability of the new Siemens equipment, I really don't think this is the last time we'll see this.
The Isle of Portland Lighthouse, commonly known as Portland Bill.
This is a Black & White conversion of an earlier posted image which can be seen here flic.kr/p/2kGtesf
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From my recent trip to Portland. I got lucky with nice weather and beautiful view from the Pittock mansion. I am going to process the photographs of the mension. Pretty nice place with interesting history.
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.
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The crew of Conrail train UPS has dropped their train of coal at Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Generating Station, seen in the distance, and is now headed for the Portland Diner to get a bite to eat. The power is westbound on the pre=Lackawanna Cutoff DL&W old main line. In the right distance and right foreground are two legs of a wye that lead to the Bangor & Portland Subdivision.
Portland Bill was built 118 years ago and replaced lighthouses that had been there since the 1700s. It is some 41meters tall (135feet) and there are 155 steps to the top. It first shone its familiar 4 flashes of light every20 seconds in 1906 and had a range of 25 nautical miles. In 2019 the lens was replaced with a modern LED technology light, which has a range of 18 miles.
Portland Bill - Portland is the name of the island and the bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) and is the most southern most point of Dorset.