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Bohnsen Cottages (Portland, Oregon)
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| Object Name | Bohnsen Cottages (Portland, Oregon)
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| View | interior: Looking North at the Entrance from the South in 1922 Elm Street – typical entrance and alcove in the living room |
| Date | 1926
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| Decade | 1920-1929
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| City | Portland
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| County | Multnomah
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| State/Province | Oregon
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| Country | United States
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| Site Detail | 1922 Elm Street |
| Photograph Date | February 2008
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| Photographer | Heritage Consulting Group
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| Cataloger | Edward H. Teague |
| Object Type | architecture
built works
views (visual works)
interior views
dwellings
houses
rooms
living rooms
entrance halls
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| Period/Style | Spanish Colonial Revival |
| Materials/Technique | concrete; stucco; terra cotta; metal |
| Signficance | National Register of Historic Places (Listed,2008 ) |
| Reference | National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, http://boundless.uoregon.edu/u?/archpnw,18025 ; National Register of Historic Places, http://www.nps.gov/nr |
| Notes | From the National Register form, Conclusion: The Bohnsen Cottages represent an attempt to blend both the single-family detached home with rental property during a time of domestic architectural experimentation. As such, the cottages feature many elements of a single-family detached home that would appeal to the tastes of the middle-class for affordable homes, such as a unique addresses, separate entries, rear or service doors, individual garages and basements. They also blend apartment features. At 31 by 18 feet, their 550 square feet of living space compares with a studio size apartment. Entry is directly into the living room, much as an apartment is accessed, and kitchens are, by comparison, Pullman-size while the "yard" is communal. Yet, despite the compact size, each structure has the luxury of a garage, an asset that might make the units more attractive but would not appreciably add to the rent. As a building type, the cottages are a unique form in the Portland Heights neighborhood and as rental housing rare in the city at large. They are indicative of the multi-family housing development trend of the 1920s and represent a very specific response to the market for middle-income housing, one that is economical but with the trappings of being independent and upscale, efficient, and auto-friendly. In this the Bohnsen Cottages stand apart from the multitude of duplexes and four-plexes, court apartments, garden apartments, flats, and residential hotels in Portland." Source: National Register form, Conclusion, page 19. |
| Metadata Notes | Description of this work is based initially on documentation supplied by the image provider. It is often the case with gift slides that very little information is provided. Review and updating of descriptive information by the collection cataloger is ongoing. |
| Digital Collection | Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
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| Source Collection | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Image Source | Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/SHPO/ |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Copyright | This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image. |
| File Name | OR_MultnomahCounty_Bohnsen12.jpg |
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