This photo, from the Portland Historic Resource Inventory (available in the Oregon Historic Sites Database), is from about May 1981. The inventory notes that the house has the following special features and materials: "Multi-gabled roof. Weatherboard siding on upper level. Projecting second story hipped pavilion with half-timbering over recessed entry with tudor arch. Brick at lower level."
A May 1961 real estate ad in the Oregonian (when the house was listed for $34,500) described it as having a central entrance hall "with all rooms very spacious" including a living room, full dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, study, and powder room on the first floor, with four bedrooms, two complete bathrooms, and a dressing room on the upper floor. The basement had a party room. Looking at the pictures above and below, there is apparently a deck above the basement-level garage.
Page 13 of the August 15, 1930, Oregonian lists a building permit issued to Leo J. Hanley for a $12,000 residence to be built by C. R. Sumner. The plumbing permit, pictured below, was issued about a month later.
Although it's called the Leo J. Hanley House in the database, it doesn't look like prominent Portland attorney Leo James Hanley (1895-1958) ever lived there. The house isn't even listed in the 1931 criss-cross directory. It is in 1932, but Hanley's law partner, Prescott Whitehouse Cookingham, (1889-1976), lives in the house. Cookingham, his wife Mabel, and daughters Diana and Cynthia are still at this address in the 1938 Portland city directory, but by 1940, they have moved a few blocks away. In 1940, real estate salesman Philip Emerson Owens (1901-1962), first wife Martha White Lutz, and children Caroline and Keith are living in the house. They are still there in the 1943 directory, but are gone by 1950.
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