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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
"Master Butchers Fined - ln the first prosecution of the kind before the court, four master butchers were convicted of having opened their shops for business before the prescribed time opening time of 7:30am on certain days. All pleaded guilty by letter.
...Ivan George Leach, of College street, Portland, were each fined 10/ with £ 1 0/6 costs." - The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA Friday 15th March 1946)
Apart from the above, all I could find was a speeding fine and a fine for parking to far off the curb!
Port Adelaide, South Australia
Marquam Bridge with Portland light...The bridge is named after Philip Marquam, a state legislator and Multnomah County judge, who owned much of Marquam Hill where Oregon Health & Science University and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center now stand. Wikipedia
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Portland Maine
Camera - Lomo'Instant Square Glass
Film - Fujifilm Instax Square
Scan - Epson Perfection V300 Photo
The lomo glass is capable of taking some incredible shots. It is a learning process with the camera as it does tend to over expose at times.
Portland Bill Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse at Portland Bill, on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. As Portland Bill's largest and most recent lighthouse, the Trinity House operated Portland Bill Lighthouse is distinctively white and red striped, standing at a height of 41 metres.
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 Maine.
Nymphs are more colourful than the adults. Even so, this female is well matched to her surroundings.
Portland, King Barrow Quarries.