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Sekkle
Dec 10, 2007, 11:56 PM
Hosford-Abernethy is a southeast Portland neighborhood that lies between the Willamette River (on the west), Hawthorne St (north), ~29th Ave (east) and Powell Blvd (south).

The neighborhood is largely residential (the housing stock includes late 19th century single-family detached houses, duplexes, low-rise apartment buildings, etc) with retail mixed in at several locations and light industrial areas between the river and 11th Ave. The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, a popular Portland attraction, is located here along the east bank of the Willamette.

Most of the neighborhood has short, walkable blocks, with a straight grid of streets. The exception to this is the Ladd’s Addition area (about ½ mile x ½ mile), which has streets diagonal to the grid, intersecting at a traffic circle in its center. This concept was apparently an homage to the layout of Washington, DC, albeit on a much smaller, much less complicated scale. Homes on some Ladd’s Addition streets are particularly impressive (some very large Victorian and craftsman-style houses), and that part of the neighborhood seems a bit quieter than the rest since there is less through-traffic and it’s almost entirely residential.

As is typical in much of SE Portland, there are very few national chain stores in the neighborhood, probably due to a concerted effort by residents to keep things local. This sentiment seems particularly strong in Hosford-Abernethy (but maybe that’s just the feeling I got). For example, a Starbucks in this neighborhood was vehemently opposed by locals before it was built, and was actually fire-bombed with a molotov cocktail just before it opened in 2004.

**A quick note to Portland locals – for these “neighborhood tour” threads, I’m using the neighborhood boundaries given in the City of Portland map of Neighborhood Associations. That makes it a bit awkward at times, as in this thread when I only show the south side of Hawthorne, which, for those that aren’t familiar with the city, is a main thoroughfare and the center of the “Hawthorne District” which runs for dozens of blocks through SE Portland. In other words, there is a north side of Hawthorne as well, but I’ll handle that in another thread.

Ok, I’ll shut up now and get to the pics…
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Streets between the Willamette River and SE 11th Ave
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Fear does not exist in this dojo!
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Oregon Museum of Science & Industry
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The submarine (USS Blueback) is part of OMSI. The bridge in the background is I-5.
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Darn tootin’!
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11th & 12th Avenues
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I’ve heard of a 4-door car, but…
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Ladd’s Addition…
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The “Seven Corners” area (intersection of Division St and Ladd/19th/20th/21st)
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There’s the Starbucks I mentioned
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People’s Co-op
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Cleveland High School
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I’m convinced that if Portland were ever abandoned, the moss would take over
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Some infill
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Apartments on Hawthorne
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Shops & restaurants along Hawthorne
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“I swear – it’s really good!”
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The entrance to this shop is tha bomb, yo!
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Downtown Portland in the distance
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My camera can’t do justice to this really cool neighborhood, but I hope you enjoyed the tour.

Echo Park
Dec 11, 2007, 12:02 AM
Thanks for filling us in on some of the real urban fabric going on around Portland. It's a nice and informative change of pace from the usual shiny new downtown condos we've come to expect from portland photo threads. some of these hoods look pretty look down to earth

flar
Dec 11, 2007, 1:12 AM
Nice work. I love the neighbourhood tours, keep it up.

Dougall5505
Dec 11, 2007, 1:43 AM
great tour

nwroots
Dec 11, 2007, 1:58 AM
Great pics! Are you planning to photograph all major Portland neighborhoods? How about inner NE Portland from Schuyler to Lombard and I-5 to 33rd or the west hills next!

OhioGuy
Dec 11, 2007, 2:13 AM
Looks like a nice neighborhood. I very much enjoyed the photo tour. Thanks! :)

MobyLL
Dec 11, 2007, 3:16 AM
Very nice ForAteOh... it's great to see all of the bicycles outside of the stores/restaurants.

hymalaia
Dec 11, 2007, 3:57 AM
Great pics! Are you planning to photograph all major Portland neighborhoods? How about inner NE Portland from Schuyler to Lombard and I-5 to 33rd or the west hills next!

he's going by the neighborhood association boundries so I imagine in NE you are asking about Eliot, Irvington, Boise, King, Sabin, Humbolt, Vernon, Concordia, Piedmont and Woodlawn. That's a lot of neighborhood threads! I myself I'm wondering though which other hoods forateoh is going to try and cover. Getting them all would be impossible, and for some outer eastside, a waste of time (I'm talking beyond i-205). I myself had a list of hoods I was going to try and cover, mostly everything bounded by the Willamette, Powell, 82nd + Fremont. I got halfway through Irvington when my camera broke. Looks like foreateoh will beat me too a bunch of those by the time I get a new camera. But what the hell, I'll probably do them again! I gather at the least we have Buckman coming up soon, which is a good one.

An abandoned nw city taken over by moss? Now there's an intriguing idea...

PacificNW
Dec 11, 2007, 4:07 AM
Nice! Tks!

downtownpdx
Dec 11, 2007, 4:10 AM
Great pics as always! I love Clinton Street, and the Ladd's Addition area has neat homes. But I swear that radiating street-pattern has made me crazy a few times -- I try to avoid it, but somehow end up there on accident and feel like I'm in the Bermuda Triangle. Portland is pretty easy to get around on the street grid, but once I'm inside Ladd's Addition I don't know which way is up. Anyway, thanks for the photos - this is a cozy, quirky, fun neighborhood and you captured the local flavor well.

Sekkle
Dec 11, 2007, 4:20 AM
he's going by the neighborhood association boundries so I imagine in NE you are asking about Eliot, Irvington, Boise, King, Sabin, Humbolt, Vernon, Concordia, Piedmont and Woodlawn. That's a lot of neighborhood threads! I myself I'm wondering though which other hoods forateoh is going to try and cover. Getting them all would be impossible, and for some outer eastside, a waste of time (I'm talking beyond i-205). I myself had a list of hoods I was going to try and cover, mostly everything bounded by the Willamette, Powell, 82nd + Fremont. I got halfway through Irvington when my camera broke. Looks like foreateoh will beat me too a bunch of those by the time I get a new camera. But what the hell, I'll probably do them again! I gather at the least we have Buckman coming up soon, which is a good one.

I don't know what's next, either. I have a bunch of pics from the Sunnyside neighborhood (Belmont area), but not enough for a thread. I haven't decided whether to do that next or somewhere in a different quadrant of the city...

But I swear that radiating street-pattern has made me crazy a few times -- I try to avoid it, but somehow end up there on accident and feel like I'm in the Bermuda Triangle. Portland is pretty easy to get around on the street grid, but once I'm inside Ladd's Addition I don't know which way is up.
So I'm not the only one! :tup:

Thanks for the comments everybody.

ColDayMan
Dec 11, 2007, 4:22 AM
Diggin' it.

ArchMadness
Dec 11, 2007, 6:16 AM
I look forward to these neighborhood threads. I like seeing this side of towns. I swear I was looking at St. Paul in a few of those shots. Thanks for the tour.

Kilgore Trout
Dec 11, 2007, 6:55 AM
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It's a four-plex! I'm surprised to see one of these in Portland.

Top Of The Park
Dec 11, 2007, 8:42 AM
Facinating

hymalaia
Dec 11, 2007, 9:45 AM
Great pics as always! I love Clinton Street, and the Ladd's Addition area has neat homes. But I swear that radiating street-pattern has made me crazy a few times -- I try to avoid it, but somehow end up there on accident and feel like I'm in the Bermuda Triangle. Portland is pretty easy to get around on the street grid, but once I'm inside Ladd's Addition I don't know which way is up. Anyway, thanks for the photos - this is a cozy, quirky, fun neighborhood and you captured the local flavor well.

My favorite is that circle in the middle. Nothing like entering it one direction and coming out the other side going a completely different direction and not having a clue you screwed up till you get back to the grid...

PHX31
Dec 11, 2007, 3:55 PM
Another awesome neighborhood tour! Late 1800s and early 1900s neighborhoods are always so interesting and so much more functional than those of today.

I'll take this house on the left:
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POLA
Dec 11, 2007, 5:47 PM
wow, awesome hood! how far from downtown is it?

Sekkle
Dec 11, 2007, 6:03 PM
wow, awesome hood! how far from downtown is it?

Not too far. Just across the river, although most of the residential and retail are several blocks east (the River is 0, most of the non-warehouse stuff begins around 11th).

Here's a map.
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Downtown is on the left, outlined in pink. Hosford-Abernethy is on the right in green. You can see the Ladd's Addition area pretty clearly as the non-grid portion between 12th & 20th.

Jularc
Dec 11, 2007, 6:17 PM
What a nice surprice. Looks so charming. I will drink to that.

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coolmillion
Dec 11, 2007, 6:19 PM
these photos have inspired my first ever post: I want to live there!

pdxman
Dec 11, 2007, 11:38 PM
Nice work forateoh! Always interesting to see parts of the city i rarely get over to. Can't wait to see more!

InlandEmpire
Dec 12, 2007, 5:27 AM
Awesome pics!- I love seeing the neighborhood tours.

I did all of the as-built verification measurements of this building for Ankrom Moisan solo and it was a CREEPY old building inside- glad to see they're finally getting to work on it; lots of potential.

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pdxtex
Dec 12, 2007, 9:05 AM
Best fried chicken in the city!!! I go at least once a week.



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Rusty van Reddick
Dec 12, 2007, 5:24 PM
It's a four-plex! I'm surprised to see one of these in Portland.

inner SE has tons of them as I recall.

Gawd, The Clinton St Theater- memories... first day at college (Reed) August 1982 seeing Atomic Cafe at the Clinton with a packed house of lefties and just feeling like I was exactly where I should be.

I'm going to have my ashes scattered in Portland.

PDX City-State
Dec 12, 2007, 8:12 PM
Best fried chicken in the city!!! I go at least once a week.

Where?

Sekkle
Dec 12, 2007, 8:43 PM
^ The pic isn't showing up for some reason... imageshack...
Anyway, I think it's Reel-M-Inn Tavern on 25th (?) & Division.

PDX City-State
Dec 12, 2007, 9:46 PM
I totally agree. Great fried chicken...not as good as the fish sauce wings down the street at Pok Pok, but great in a traditional sense.

denveraztec
Dec 14, 2007, 8:13 PM
Beautiful neighborhood and wonderful pics! I could totally live there!

alexjon
Dec 14, 2007, 9:18 PM
What? No pictures of the first McMenamin's?

Sekkle
Dec 14, 2007, 11:51 PM
What? No pictures of the first McMenamin's?

It's on the north side of Hawthorne, right?

**A quick note to Portland locals – for these “neighborhood tour” threads, I’m using the neighborhood boundaries given in the City of Portland map of Neighborhood Associations. That makes it a bit awkward at times, as in this thread when I only show the south side of Hawthorne, which, for those that aren’t familiar with the city, is a main thoroughfare and the center of the “Hawthorne District” which runs for dozens of blocks through SE Portland. In other words, there is a north side of Hawthorne as well, but I’ll handle that in another thread.

chrizow
Dec 15, 2007, 12:19 AM
very cool, keep the pdx threads coming!

MarkDaMan
Jan 2, 2008, 7:01 PM
Great thread ForAteOh, I do agree, it is nearly impossible to capture the funkiness of the area in a camera.

tackledspoon
Jan 2, 2008, 10:52 PM
Great tour! It just goes to show that urbanity and density don't always go hand in hand. I can think of plenty of neighborhoods that are probably far more dense than this one, but it still looks very functional and walkable. I've really got to get out west one of these days.

the pope
Jan 2, 2008, 11:32 PM
i really dig the vibe this neighborhood drops.

Nice work mang.

ItsConanOBrien
Jan 3, 2008, 12:28 AM
Nice! Nothing beats a good neighborhood tour.