Those Places Thursday: 3733 NE 28th Avenue, 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 1931.  This one is located at 3733 NE 28th Avenue, on the corner of NE Hamblet Street.  At the time I viewed it, it was surrounded by trees in full summer foliage, so I borrowed this photograph from a 2015 real estate ad to better show the front of the home (click on each image to view it larger):




The first mention I found of the house was an article in the March 24, 1935 Oregonian, called "Six Permits for Construction of Homes Issued," about building permits issued the previous week.  It includes this:  "Two-story house costing $9500 at 3733 Northeast Twenty-eighth avenue to Frank A. Read."

Here is the plumbing permit from PortlandMaps, dated March 29, 1935.  The house originally had two bathrooms:

This house is listed in the Oregon Historic Sites Database and the City of Portland Historic Resource Inventory as the Joseph P. and Mildred Tarvola [sic, it should be Tarola] House.  Tarola owned the Tarola Motor Car Company (a Chrysler Plymouth dealership) and his daughter Mary Jo was a beauty queen and actress who later married movie producer and alleged mobster Pat DiCicco and then baseball star "Hammerin' Hank" Greenberg.  The Tarola family lived in the house through at least 1943, but had apparently moved by 1950.

The Inventory categorizes the Tudor Revival house as architecturally significant, and lists the following special features and materials:

Hip roof with gabled pavilion.  Mock half-timbering and brick exterior.  Brick corbeling on chimney.  Tudor arch door opening.  Casement windows.

The photo below is from the Inventory and was probably taken about May 1981:

As mentioned above, it was hard to photograph this house for all the trees.  Here is one end of the home, where a bay window is visible on the main floor.  The house has approximately 3,002 square feet and sits on a 5,800 square-foot lot.

This is a view of the home from the Hamblet street side.  In April 1936, Joseph Tarola applied for a plumbing permit to add a third bathroom above the garage.  At some later point, a half-bath was added in the basement, and in 2017 a shower was added to that.

This property overview is from the aforementioned real estate listing (which also includes some interior photographs) of February 9, 2015:

Elegant Tudor in prime Alameda location! Formal entry with gorgeous staircase,amazing natural light thru out. Spacious floor-plan with grand rooms. Original character including leaded glass,built ins, hardwood floors. Coveted floor plan with 3 bedrooms up and 4th or den/office on main. Lower level family room with fireplace. Lovely outdoor patio, garden, beautiful camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons and flowering crab apple.

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