Historic Preservation League of Oregon

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July 2011 Blog Posts (2)

Historic Art Moderne/Streamline for Sale in Portland

Hello fellow HPLO members -- I'm an interior designer in Portland. We must relocate to CA for work... and so have listed our wonderful home for sale.

We have renovated a 1937 Art Moderne/Streamline home adjacent to downtown in Southwest Portland. We purchased the home about 5-1/2 years ago, and have conducted extensive improvements, including removing the layers of tar on the roof and installing a…

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Added by Julianna Verboort on July 28, 2011 at 11:58am — No Comments

Of Kitty Kats and Big Red Barns

Several months back, the HPLO received a phone call from one of our league members in Linn County who had been alerted to a verbal decision by the City of Tangent to demolish the “Big Red Barn.” Also known as the “Bass Barn” or “Tangent Barn,” the Big Red Barn was built in the early 1920s by poultry farmers Herbert and Jane Borden in the small grass seed farming community south of Albany. Although a number of buildings in the Tangent vicinity date to the much earlier settlement era of the…

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Added by Brandon Spencer-Hartle on July 25, 2011 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment