Here is another Mediterranean-style house designed by my architect first-cousin-twice-removed, Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976), in Portland, Oregon, in 1928. This one is located up on a hill at 3114 NE 36th Avenue, and was a bit hard to photograph:
A better picture is this one, from the Portland Historic Resource Inventory, taken about May, 1980, when the vegetation around the house was not quite as large.
The inventory form says its special features and materials include a "gabled clay tile roof, wrought-iron balcony, round-headed window openings, leaded glass windows, and stucco exterior." A May 1986 real estate ad describes it as a three-bedroom, two-bath house with a panoramic view, including a 20' by 40' deck.
In the Oregon Historic Sites Database, the house is named for Paul S. and Nina [D. Jones] Wiggins (marriage license referenced in The Sunday Oregonian, October 23, 1921, Section Two, Page 7), apparently the original owners. In the 1928 city directory, he was the household sales manager for the Frigidaire Corporation, and she was a stenographer for M. Seller & Co. They are at this address (then 674 E. 36th St. N.) in the 1929 directory, but by 1930, they have moved, and the criss-cross directory for that year shows someone else in the house. Here is the May 10, 1928 plumbing permit, which shows C. S. Wiggins as the owner (probably a typo):
Another significant owner, according to the Portland Historic Resource Inventory, was H[arry] A. Gunhus, a manager with the Simonds Saw & Steel Company, who lived in the house with his wife June from at least 1943 to at least 1960.
In 2011, I was contacted by the then-current owners, who said they'd been there for 23 years, and offered a tour. I forgot on my trip to Portland this past summer to contact them to see if they were still willing to give me one - I hope to remember to do so the next time I am in Portland!
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