PORTLAND, Ore. – A 100-year-old house in the Mt. Tabor neighborhood of Southeast Portland has been deconstructed and the lot is being split into four properties.
Located at 5638 SE Hawthorne Blvd., the 1920 house totaled 2,826 square feet on a 15,200-square-foot lot.
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In February 2019 the city received an application to deconstruct the house.
The applicant was listed as Douglas Lichter Deconstruction Services and the contractor was listed as Good Wood Deconstruction and Salvage.
The house was listed as a “ranked” structure on the city’s Historic Resource Inventory, which indicates it was “found to have adequate characteristics of historic significance to be considered for historic designation at the time of inventorying.”
Because of that ranking, the application was subject to a 120-day extended demolition delay period. The 120-day delay expired last June and the permit was ultimately issued on Jan. 10, 2020.
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In August 2019 the city approved a preliminary plan for a four-lot subdivision on the site, with two detached single-family houses and two attached single-family units.
No construction permits have been filed yet.
According to the property’s historic resource documentation, the house was built in the California Mission Style architecture. At the time of its 1980 survey, it was owned by the Western Conservative Baptist Seminary.