Northwest Home Comes Down After 111 Years

PORTLAND, Ore. – A 111-year-old house that sold for $665,000 last year has been removed to make way for new construction of a four-story single-family home in northwest Portland.

Update: This article has been updated with a more recent rendering of the proposed replacement house.

Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

The house was located at 2486 NW Raleigh St., totaled 2,256 square feet on a 3,700-square-foot lot, and in June 2014 sold for $665,000 to James F. Baldwin and David A. Carter.

In fall 2014 the new owners submitted a proposal to demolish the 1904 house and replace it with a modern-styled house. A year-long process began, involving city decisions, neighborhood input and changed plans. The Portland Chronicle reported on these changes in November.

Renderings of the previously-planned project showed a three-story modern-style residential unit.

In the end the applicant on the project, Trevor Lewis of William Kaven Architecture, submitted a new construction application in November, this time listing a new, four-story single-family residence with an attached garage. This is one story higher than the structure proposed in the previous application.

More recent renderings submitted in May show the four-story building described in the new construction permit.

Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

Rendering submitted with early assistance application in May

A demolition permit was issued Nov. 30. The contractor was iBuildPdx Company LLC.

Well-used parking spaces and the east sidewalk on Northwest 25th Avenue were blocked off for the construction work.

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In mid-November work began in preparation to take the house down. Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

Rendering submitted with early assistance application in May

While the permit describes the work as demolition, a sign at the demolition site says this was a deconstruction project. Most permits do not differentiate, although a project in the Lloyd District indicated that the work would be deconstruction rather than demolition.

Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

Photo credit: Portland Chronicle

The new construction permit is still under review.

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Rendering submitted with early assistance application in May