Paving SW 3rd Avenue and SW Arthur Street, 1931.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2000-025.160
SW 3rd Avenue, 1931
Vintage Portland
Paving SW 3rd Avenue and SW Arthur Street, 1931.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2000-025.160
Vintage Portland 
The house on left is still there. The viaduct is the Southern Pacific RR (pre Barbur Bvld) and the road on the hillside is SW Broadway Dr?
that road is on top of a lot of un-compacted fill.would not want to be there when the “big” one hits
If you google (maps) 811 SW Broadway Dr. you will see (I think) the houses with the broad porches/balconies. How cool is that?
I think this is roughly the same view today: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5036789,-122.6797693,3a,75y,270h,86.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suWU6Fxf5sa-qp2bR3ashag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
And the farm house at the very crest of the hill at SW Davenport & Tangent Streets had a pear orchard above and behind it.
If you look closely, you can see Asbury Barbur (the father of Barbur Blvd) and assistant, standing on RR bridge planning the massive fill at Duniway Park.
The same three houses can be seen in this post from last month. Quite a different grade between 1918 and 1931: The second house on the right has become partially below grade. The third house on the right looks like it is being demolished in the 1931 photo above as the roof attic and porch are gone. Debris appears to jut from the 2nd floor window.
does anyone have any info on the quarry below broadway? terwilliger plaza sits in it now.
If you look at John Killen’s modern street view and pan over to the left, it appears that the still extant Victorian on that corner lost a turret at some point.
a bit altered, but i believe this is the house at top of hill:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5047808,-122.6878322,3a,75y,296.61h,101.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXidzzq_ddnW141gX7da0og!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
built in 1896. still has fruit trees around it!
here are the two houses on the hill today
https://goo.gl/maps/4tb7FraofTt
I really wish they’d rename the whole Sheridan/Caruthers/3rd/Arthur/Kelly/Corbett thing with just one name. “Ross Island Bridge Road” maybe?
Was there a quarry below Broadway Drive or was that just a steep hillside?
a quarry – the artificially sharp right-angle corners are the tell.
that, and the 1901 sanborn that says ‘abandoned stone quarry!’
Whoever owns the home on the left is really lucky to have so many cool old pics of it through time.
During the height of the Great Depression.