Those Places Thursday: 7528 SE 36th, Portland, Oregon - Ewald Pape's Home ABT 1925-1953

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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(Not-So-) Wordless Wednesday: Ewald Pape and Family, Christmastime 1946

Recently I was contacted by a third cousin once removed named Rachel who is the great-granddaughter of Margaret "Grete" Pape Travaglini (1901-1988).  Grete is the first cousin of my grandfather Paul Robert Pape (1896-1970) and his siblings, and the youngest daughter of Lorenz Pape (1862-1932), my great-great uncle.  More about Margaret and her family in a future post.

Rachel sent me a number of pictures of Margaret and her family, including pictures of her with her full brother Lorenz Jr. (the only one of Lorenz Sr.'s children to stay in Germany), as well as from visits Margaret made with her half-brother, the Portland architect Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976), or that Ewald had sent to her.

Below is one of those pictures, from Christmas time in 1946, of Ewald (on the right) with his wife Alma D. Albert Pape (1898-1983) and son Albert "Bert" Theodore Pape (1928-2003).  Note the background - more about this in my next post!

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Those Places Thursday: 2732 NW Monte Vista Terrace, Portland, Oregon - An Ewald Pape Design

This house, at  2732 NW Monte Vista Terrace in the Kings Heights neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, was designed by my architect first-cousin-twice-removed, Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976), in 1941.

Note the view of Mount Hood.

Here is the plumbing permit for the house, dated June 4, 1941, from PortlandMaps.com:

An ad in the June 7, 1942 Oregonian read:

New!  Completed just a few months ago for owner.  Designed by E. T. Pape and fastidiously built on a level hilltop, commanding views three ways - every mountain, all the city, the river and its beautiful bridges, the green hills and parkways.  Large living room has windows three ways as well as French door to view balcony and down two steps to level view garden.  Master bedroom has fireplace and two view balconies.  Two other bedrooms, double plumbing.... house so thoroughly insulated, heating bill for three winter months was only $23. ...buy it for less than its construction cost, at $12,900.

In the photo below, you can see the two balconies of the master bedroom.

A July 19, 1942 Oregonian ad had some different phrasing:

...commanding views in three ways:  Mountains, city, rivers, and wooded hills.  ...A dream of a kitchen, with breakfast alcove overlooking the world!  Master bedroom with fireplace and spacious dressing room.  Two other nice bedrooms and lovely bath with stall shower.  Thoroughly insulated and weatherstripped; air-conditioned furnace; double garage.  A rare buy at $11,900.

The chimney for the fireplaces, with its interesting brick details, can be seen in the photo below.

The entrance to the house, and the garage, can be seen in the next two photos.

The house is built on a high point in the neighborhood, and the back side of it is not visible from the street that runs behind the house.


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Those Places Thursday: 3231 SE Bybee, An Ewald Pape Design

This house, at 3261 SE Bybee in the Eastmoreland neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, was designed by my architect first-cousin-twice-removed, Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976), in 1937.

A plumbing permit for the house (obtained via PortlandMaps.com) was issued on July 12, 1937:

Six days later, on July 18, 1937, a brief article appeared in the Portland Oregonian entitled "Nilson Builds House" that stated, "Construction of a $9000 house at 3231 Southeast Bybee boulevard has been started by Emil Nilson, builder.  Plans were prepared by E. T. Pape."

A 2009 real estate listing indicates the house has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a two-car garage, fireplace, and is 3,583 square feet on a 6,700 square-foot lot.

According to the Eastmoreland Historic District application, the house is of English Cottage style, with a projecting front room (visible in the first photo),  lead window above the front door, and flush face dormer (both visible in the photo below).

The historic distric application also indicates some minor alterations:  the "bay window [in the dining room] does not appear on 1950 Sanborn map; permits show that small bump-out addition [to the kitchen, to create a larger breakfast area] was constructed in 2015."  Both can be seen in the plans below for the addition, which were available in PortlandMaps.com.  It also shows that the house has a full basement under much of it.

The house is on the corner with Reed College Place, and has tall hedges along that side, obscuring views of that side and the back of the house.


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Those Places Thursday: 920 Westpoint, Lake Oswego, Oregon - An Ewald Pape Design

This gorgeous house on Lake Oswego (near Portland, Oregon), was designed by my architect first-cousin-twice-removed, Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976), in 1936 - but it took a little while for me to verify it.  Thanks to Terry Sprague of Luxe Christie's International Real Estate, the broker who currently has the house listed for sale; Kelley Woodwick, Anne Sjogren, and James Fugate of Fidelity National Title in Portland; and Marilyn Felipe, Steve Rauch, Linda and Laura of the Lake Oswego Public Library, I was able to figure it out.

920 Westpoint, Lake Oswego, Oregon, as viewed from the lake.  

Photo courtesy of Terry Sprague of Luxe Christie's International Real Estate

This quest started with an article in the April 12, 1936 Portland Oregonian, on page 23, entitled "Fine Residence Being Erected at Lake Oswego":

One of the outstanding residential buildings of the year is under construction in the exclusive Lakewood drive, facing Oswego lake, for Leo J. Hanley of Cookingham & Hanley, attorneys for the Ladd estate.  Cost is estimated at $12,000.

The house, designed by E. T. Pape, occupies one of the most desirable building sites in the district.  It is of Cape Cod style.  Exterior will be of shake and stone.  It will feature four bedrooms, three baths, and basement shower and locker rooms.

Stone used in the house is from the old Oregon City courthouse and was quarried at Carver in 1884.  This stone also will be used in an 80-foot stone wall bounding the property on the lake side.

The house will be finished early in June.

The image below accompanied the article, with the additional information that the contractor was Fred Juhr.

The sketch looks a lot like this photograph, doesn't it?

920 Westpoint, Lake Oswego, Oregon, as viewed from the air.  

Photo courtesy of Terry Sprague of Luxe Christie's International Real Estate

But I'm getting ahead of the story.  It took me a while to figure out that this was the house, because the newspaper article didn't provide an address, and I couldn't find any records (such as census or city directories) of Leo Hanley actually living in Lake Oswego.

All the article said was "Lakewood drive, facing Oswego lake."  There is not a street in Lake Oswego specifically called Lakewood Drive.  However, there is a neighborhood / subdivision called Lakewood, and I decided to start my search there.  I used PortlandMaps.com to search all the waterfront lots that still had houses on them completed in 1936 or 1937 (since sometimes the year of completion listed on that site is one year after the actual completion date).  I found a number of possibilities, including a house at 920 Westpoint that, in Google Maps Street View, looked a lot like the sketch from 1936.  But that still wasn't enough evidence.

I discovered that the City of Lake Oswego's public library had created an online index for a couple of local newspapers.  I did a search on Hanley and came up with two articles that seemed relevant, and submitted a request through their Ask a Librarian service to get copies of the articles from microfilm.

The first article was from the July 16, 1936 Oswego Review and was called "Leo J. Hanley Residence," with keywords "Leo Hanley house described."  This article repeated the story about the "hewn sandstone taken from the old Clackamas court house," noting that it was used in the first story of the house as well as walls fronting the building, terraces, and lake shore walls.  The article went on to say,

The building has fifteen rooms, among them a spacious living room, dining room, dinet [sic], kitchen, and recreation room, besides a full basement, there are five bed rooms, three baths, and closets, drawers, and shelving galore.  A highly finished three stall garage, with parking space for eight cars, has been provided.  The grounds have been beautifully designed and upwards of 2000 flowering plants and shrubs have been set out.  The home is equipped with every convenience known to science, and the site of the home is among the most romantic on the lake.

This story also mentioned Pape and Juhr, as well as the home's location on the "shore of Lake Oswego," but said it was on "Peninsula Drive."  There's no Peninsula Drive in Lake Oswego, and wasn't in the past, according to the city's librarians.  However, part of the Lakewood subdivision is often called "The Peninsula," and Westpoint is located in that area.

Here is a plat of the second part of the Lakewood subdivision, from 1925, obtained from the Clackamas County Surveyor Information System (CCSIS) - click on the image to enlarge it:

And here is an enlargement of the lower part of that plat, the peninsula, showing Westpoint Road:

I felt 920 Westpoint might be the right house, but I still wasn't sure.  The other article that I obtained from the Lake Oswego Public Library was called "Many Real Estate Transfers Take Place in this Vicinity," from the August 27, 1936 Oswego Review.  Some of its keywords included the phrase "Leo Hanley House."  It had this sentence:  

The palatial home of Mr. Leo Hanley, Portland prominent attorney, has been sold to an unnamed person.  A rumor is to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Anderson of the Anderson and Cohen Hudson auto dealers in Portland were the buyers.

I searched for an Anderson in Lake Oswego in the 1940 Census - and bingo!  William M. Anderson, co-owner of an "retail automobile store," and family were on West Point Road - although there were no house numbers on the 1940 Census in that part of Lake Oswego, so I still wasn't sure.

Next I searched in the Oregonian again, this time for William Anderson, and found his 1976 obituary, which gave his address as 920 West Point.  Apparently he lived there for 40 years.  His daughter, Doris Mae Soller, died in 2012 and was living in Lake Oswego at the time.  I found references to 920 Westpoint associated with her name.  I wondered if she and her family lived in the house too, perhaps after her father's death.  I found her obituary and that of her son (who died in 2010), along with names of other relatives.

At that point, I was stuck, due to distance and lack of (free or low-cost) online access to the records I need.  I wanted to see if the home's current ownership could be traced backwards to William Morris Anderson and wife Eva Lulu Bischoff Anderson, and even better, back to Leo James Hanley and wife Fabian Rosche Hanley.  Then I would feel more confident that Ewald Pape did in fact design this house.

So I reached out to realtor Terry Sprague, and he was very interested in helping me.  He contacted Kelley Woodwick, who in turn put Ann Sjogren on the hunt.  Ann was able to send me copies of the deeds that did trace the ownership back to Leo Hanley.  And, as I thought, Doris Anderson Soller (William's daughter) and her husband did own the house from November 1976 to June 1986.

The house at 920 Westpoint is on lot 263 and the eastern (left-side) half of lot 264, as shown on this 1988 survey from CCSIS (click on the image to enlarge it):

And on this topographic map, from the same 1988 survey, you can see the footprint of the house at that time (click on the image to enlarge it):




Here is a photograph of the 1884 Clackamas County Courthouse, the source of the stone used on the house and grounds:

Courthouse at Oregon City, Oregon / OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons

 / No known copyright restrictions

You can see the stones from the courthouse in the fence around the front of the property in the photograph below:

920 Westpoint, Lake Oswego, Oregon, as viewed from the street.  

Photo courtesy of Terry Sprague of Luxe Christie's International Real Estate

Check out this video of the home, which includes interior photos and more views of the exterior.


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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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Those Places Thursday: 4510 NE Alameda, 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 4510 NE Alameda St, on the corner of NE Wiberg Lane (click on each image to view it larger):




The first mention I found of the house was an article in the May 20, 1934 Oregonian, called "Four Projects Advance," about building permits issued the previous week.  It includes this:  "Frank A. Read will build a two-story house costing $7500 at 4510 Northeast Alameda,...Plans were prepared by E. T. Pape..."

Here is the plumbing permit from PortlandMaps, dated June 18, 1934.  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 Frank A. and Mae Read House, although it doesn't appear that they ever lived there.  The Inventory categorizes the Tudor Revival house as architecturally significant, and lists the following special features and materials:

Steeply pitched irregular hip roof.  Mock half-timbering and brick exterior.  Leaded-glass windows.  Gabled dormer.  Brackets.  Curvilinear arched entrance.  Stepped chimney.

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

Despite its location on a corner, it was hard to see much of this house, due to the landscaping, including a tall hedge along the side.  An article in the July 23, 1939 Oregonian indicated that P[ier] D. Rollandet (who lived in the house from about 1938 to about 1942) won first prize in the amateur division that week in the Oregonian's "Outdoor Living" contest.  The article stated,

Mr. Rollandet's terrace is located next to the back porch of his home and is bounded by a tall hedge.  A short flight of steps leads from the terrace to stepping stones on the broad lawn.  A feature...is a tall, perfectly shaped tulip tree, which provides shade for the terrace.

A real estate ad in the February 1, 1942 Oregonian indicates that the house had four bedrooms, one downstairs and three upstairs, with a bathroom on each floor, and a "spacious entry."

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Those Places Thursday: 4608 NE 36th 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 4608 NE 36th Avenue, on the corner of Going Street, which is the view below (click on each image to view it larger):




According to an article on page 20 of the November 5, 1933 Portland Oregonian, "William K. Haug was granted a permit for a $4500 one-story house to be constructed at 4608 Northeast Thirty-sixth avenue for which E. T. Pape prepared the plans."

One week later, on page 20 of the November 12 issue of the Oregonian, an article entitled "Enterlock Home Rising - First Building in Portland Made of New Type of Lumber" said,

The first home in Portland to be build of "Enterlock" lumber, a product of the Long-Bell Lumber Sales corporation, will be under construction this week at Northeast Thirty-sixth avenue and Going street under the supervision of E. T. Pape, designer.  The house is being built for Mr. and Mrs. William K. Haug.

Enterlock is a new machine preparation of the unit parts which go to make up a building, systematized in such a manner that any type of home building, regardless of plan and architectural treatment, may be built.

The public is invited to inspect the building of this house, the lumber for which is being furnished by the Rowell Lumber company.  I. M. Phelps is the contracting builder.

Here is the plumbing permit from PortlandMaps, dated November 27, 1933:

 Four months later, an article appeared in the March 25, 1934 Oregonian, entitled "Enterlock Home Built - House of Special Fabricated Design Constructed Here"

The first home in Portland to be built by Enterlock fabricated lumber, manufactured by the Long-Bell Lumber company of Longview, Wash., has been completed at 4608 Northeast Thirty-sixth avenue for Mr. and Mrs. William K. Haug.  The cost was $4500.

Construction of the house was supervised by E. T. Pape, designer of homes.  All of the lumber going into the construction is kiln dried and dovetailed together, making a perfect fit and automatically making all walls and ceilings square.

Mr. and Mrs. Haug expect to occupy their new home about April 1.

Here is a view of the home from the 36th Avenue side.  I'm not sure if the porte cochere, which has a deck on top of it, is original to the site:

Edward A. Laughlin of Port Arthur, Texas, invented Enterlock before World War I, and it was patented in 1923.  Here is a sketch from the article "Lock-Joined Lumber for Building" in The Wood-Worker, Volume 38, June 1919 edition, pages 35-36, that illustrates how the pieces of lumber interlock:

Here's a close-up of the front door:

As of 2013, this house only had two owners.  Haug was still living in the house at his death in 1952.  A real estate ad in August 1963 indicates the owners have "bought in Oswego."  This description is from a June 4, 2013 real estate ad:

"Truly charming, sunny & well maintained 1934 custom built home w/ only 2 owners. Hi ceilings, leaded glass, hrdwds thru out, updated kitchen w/ granite, Marmoleum, S/S appl. [stainless steel appliances] & eat area. Extremely solid construction. Newer mechanicals. Super high ceilings make this huge basement ideal for finishing."

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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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Those Places Thursday: Mayfair Greens Clubhouse, Portland, Oregon - An Ewald Pape Design

This is one of the few structures in Portland, Oregon, designed by my architect first-cousin-twice removed Ewald Theodore Pape (1894-1976), that no longer exists. (Click on all images to make them larger).  This image, of a clubhouse for a new golf driving range and putting course, comes from the July 17, 1932 Oregonian:

An accompanying article stated that it would open later that month on 12.5 acres on the northwest corner of the intersection of today's SE 82nd Avenue and SE Division Street.  The article states, "A club house containing a lounge, with fireplace, shower baths and wash rooms is nearing completion.  E. T. Pape, architect, designed the building,,,"

On August 31 of that same year, an almost-half-page ad announced the grand opening:

Here's the lower right corner of the drawing, showing the clubhouse in the upper left corner, and Ewald's advertising information on the lower right corner:

The City of Portland Archives has a photograph (below) from June 30, 1934,  taken at the intersection of 82nd and Division looking north on 82nd.  Just beyond the gas station is the long, low structure adjacent to the clubhouse that covered the driving tees.  You can also see the nets installed along the left side of 82nd to catch errant balls.    You can also view a then-and-now image at the What Was There website.

City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2009-009.2033

This is another view, looking south on 82nd towards Division.  You can just barely see the clubhouse towards the right (behind the first net pole), with the tee structure extending to the left.

City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2009-009.2139

You can see part of the tee structure on the far right in this aerial view from 1947:

City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2005-001.769

The Mayfair Greens and Fairways were fairly active for a few years, but by March 1943, in an Oregonian ad, the owner was trying to rent it out as a possible dairy.  However, in September 1954, there were proposed alterations to the building, and I found ads in the mid-1950s for a Mayfair Golf Range at this location.  By September 1961, though, a store was proposed for the site.  Today, most of it is part of the Portland Community College Southeast Campus.


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