Those Places Thursday: Burrell Courts, Portland, Oregon - An Ewald Pape Design

This lovely building is part of a ten-unit English Cottage style apartment building in Portland, Oregon, designed by my architect first cousin twice removed, Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976), in 1928.  The Burrell Courts are located at the corner of SE Hawthorne Boulevard and SE 29th Avenue.  Click on all photos to view them larger.

Pictured above is the corner unit, with an address of 2904, and the sign (enlarged below) just outside it is pictured below.

The building was designed by Ewald in late 1927 or early 1928 as another project for his frequent apartment-building partner, Robert S. McFarland.  Here is the plumbing permit for the building, dated February 7, 1928:

The L-shaped building is listed in the Oregon Historic Sites Database and the Portland Historic Resource Inventory.  The photos below are from those, the first being from about May 1981 of the Hawthorne side of the building...

...and the second photo, below, from about 1988, of the 29th Avenue side of the building.

Three of the ten units (those at each end and at the corner) are 1.5-story townhouses, with two bedrooms and one bath, and approximately 750 square feet.  Other units are one bedroom, one bath with about 650 square feet.  Each unit has its own address and its own front and back door.  Below, you can see doors for the units with the addresses 2918 (to the left), 2916, and 2912 SE Hawthorne.

Here is another picture of the corner unit, from the corner.  The property management company for the Burrell Courts describes the units as having hardwood floors, "abundant natural light...[and]...a shared backyard garden courtyard. Generous kitchens have ample storage space and traditional cabinetry, as well as dining nooks framed by classic Roman arches. Laundry facilities are available onsite."

Here is a view of the building along the 29th Avenue side.  You can see entrances to the units with 1510 and 1514 addresses on that street.

And below are the entrances to the end units on 29th, 1520 and 1522.

The building is listed in the database and the inventory for its architectural features, which include a high-pitch multi-gable roof, shed roof dormers at each end (such as the one pictured below, for 1522 SE 30th Ave.), brick on the lower level, weatherboard siding on the upper level, small front porches for each unit, and mostly six-over-one double-hung sash windows (the original wooden ones were replaced around the year 2000 with vinyl).

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