Those Places Thursday: 3517 E Burnside, Portland, Oregon - An Ewald Pape Design

Here is another house that was definitely designed by my architect first-cousin-twice-removed, Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976), in Portland, Oregon, in 1932.  This one is located at 3517 E Burnside, but unfortunately I only have a few photographs of it (click on each image to view it larger):

The house was apparently a speculative build by Frank A. Read, a prominent residence construction contractor in Portland.  A March 24, 1932 Oregonian article listed the building permit for what was then 1075 E. Burnside for a house valued at $10,500.  Here's the plumbing permit from PortlandMaps, dated April 22, 1932.  The original house had two bathrooms.



Ads for the house started appearing in the Oregonian in August 1932, continuing through April 1933.  The descriptions included "magnificent new 7-rm. English home," "overlooking Laurelhurst Park," '4 bedrms., 2 baths, oil heat, party room," "price $12,500," "elegant," "large grounds," "colonial, outstanding in appearance, faultless in construction," "superior in design and workmanship," and "recreation room; most efficient oil-heating system; lot 75x100."




A drawing of the house appears on page 18 of the August 27, 1933, Oregonian, with this caption: "NEW HOME ERECTED IN LAURELHURST - This attractive ten-room house has [sic] just completed for Dr. and Mrs. Raymond R. Staub, at 3517 Northeast Burnside street, adjacent to Laurelhurst Park. The English Tudor theme was used by the designer, E. T. Pape, with a harmonious blending of stucco, stone, brick, and timber. Appointed construction was by Frank Read, builder, with landscaping by George L. Beltz."   I think the better terminology would have been "has just been sold" rather than "completed," as the house had been for sale for a year at this point.  It's likely the Depression made it hard to sell.

Dr. Staub and his family lived in the house through at least January 1951, but were definitely gone by September 1952, when the Stanley Spencer Malinsky family was living in the house.  The Malinskys owned the home through at least the end of 1968.

The house suffered $2300 in damage in a fire in October 1941, and a small addition was made to the rear of the house to enlarge the kitchen in 2002-2003, bringing it to 4,394 square feet.

The house is included in the National Register of Historic Places nomination of the Laurelhurst Historic District as an eligible/contributing structure.  Comments about the house include:  "Upper story windows replaced, second-story addition to east elevation.  Cross gable roof with no eaves and steep asymmetrical pitch over recessed entry. Entry surround and one lower bay have stone facing. Also some half-timbering on an upper level area of the front.  Attached garage not original."


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