This picture corresponds with one I posted about three weeks ago, from Christmas time in 1946, of the family of my Portland architect cousin Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976) and his family in their Portland home.
Here is another one, with Ewald's wife Alma D. Albert Pape (1898-1983) and son Albert "Bert" Theodore Pape (1928-2003). Note the fireplace and mantle in the background.
The picture above was taken inside the longtime home of Ewald Pape and his family at 7528 SE 36th Avenue in the Eastmoreland neighborhood of Portland. Below is a more recent view of the interior of the Spanish Revival living room. The fireplace and mantle are nearly identical, although the sconces above the recessed area above the mantal have been removed.
And here is a photo I took of the exterior of the house in June of 2018:
I found an article in the July 6, 1924, Portland Oregonian stating that J. W. Davis was building the house, and the plumbing permit dated July 30, 1924, corroborates that. Ewald and his family lived in the home from at least 1925 through at least 1953 (although by 1955, they were in California).
The house was designed by Portland architect Ora Mabin Akers (1879-1965), who was active in Portland 1924-1930. His offices in that period were near Ewald's, and Akers' Portland home was in the same Eastmoreland neighborhood, so it is likely they knew each other.
Akers has twelve buildings on the Portland Historic Resources Inventory, seven apartment buildings, four single family residences, and one grocery (in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, which Ewald later remodeled). One example of his work, from 1923, is in the Ladd Addition. Akers lived in the Portland area until about 1933, when he apparently moved to Seattle.
I always thought it a little strange that Ewald did not design his own home - but then, his career was just starting about then. The earliest work I can clearly attribute to Ewald is from early 1925.
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