I decided to go back and see if any of the buildings designed by my architect first-cousin-twice removed Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976) had any such plans from earlier remodels. I was particularly excited to see that a house I wrote about back in July 2018 - one of the few of his works that actually no longer exists - had such plans.
The house at 6438 SW Burlingame Place, that infamously slid down its hillside ten years ago, in October 2008, had been remodeled in 2004. The plans for that remodel were available at PortlandMaps, and included rough floor plans for the existing conditions. I cleaned those up a bit, adding labels to the rooms, and here they are, starting with the main floor (ground floor at street level) - click on them to make them larger:
Here is the upper level (bedrooms and bathrooms):
And here is the lower level (family room, another bedroom and bath, storage, laundry, and one room whose use was unclear):
Finally, here is the basement, which is storage and mechanical:
Most of the 2004 work affected the interior - changing the smallest upstairs bedroom into a large master closet and an enlarged (non-master) bathroom, and reorienting rooms on the lower level to create an office where the bedroom used to be (moving said bedroom into part of the family room area, and the displaced family room space into that previously-unidentified space), adding a snack bar, and making the bathroom bigger.
The main change on the main floor involved "filling in" the alcove area between the garage (on the left in the plan below) and the bay-window-like area where the half-bath was. This fill-in became the new half-bath, and the other space was reconfigured to improve traffic flow. The kitchen was extensively redone, removing the odd protruding peninsula (for lack of a better time) that I suspect was likely an even earlier remodel, well prior to 2000 (the earliest date I have found on any plans on the PortlandMaps site so far).
The next two photos show how the house looked in August 2007 and are a historical view from Google Maps Street View. Honestly, it's not really clear to me why Ewald had that alcove in the first place. Perhaps in 1929, when this home was designed, it was not common for the garage to have a door opening directly into the house.
I also learned a little about one of the earliest owners of the house. He was Dr. Robert Budd Karkeet, 1884-1960, who apparently specialized in ear, nose, and throat bronchoscopy, and, earlier, was an oculist. The doctor, his wife Cora Alma Hardinghaus Karkeet (1884–1973), and their daughter Evelyn Elizabeth "Betty" Karkeet (Mrs. John) Gould (born about 1913), may have moved into the house as early as late 1930 (when it was built, but after the April 1930 Census). They were definitely there by the time the 1932 city directory) was published, and until at least 1943 (per city directory) and possibly as late as 1946 (when an ad for the sale of the house appears in the Oregonian).
That October 13, 1946 ad describes the house as:
Located on that high, most northerly promitory of North Burlingame, its view is superb. Every room including the 4 bedrooms enjoy this breath-taking panorama. There are 3 full baths and a lavatory [half-bath]. Large party room with oak floor. Costly hot-water heating plant and double attached garage.
This description matches the pre-2004 floor plan, so it's very possible that the ones shown in this post are very similar to - if not THE actual - plans Ewald drew.
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