A number man standing outside an apartment building on SE Clay Street and SE Union Avenue (SE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard), 1929.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2009-009.2432
SE Clay Street, 1929
Vintage Portland
A number man standing outside an apartment building on SE Clay Street and SE Union Avenue (SE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard), 1929.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2009-009.2432
Vintage Portland 
Delicious wood architectural adornments. Buildings were playful then. The skill of the woodworker to imagine..then turn these fanciful bits with lathe and saw. So fun!
I note there is something missing from the fire escape. A ladder to the ground.
Looks like someone, maybe the numbers man?, was in the middle of mowing the yard as well.
Pets allowed.
not just any pets – the rca dog is living there!
I think this building is in the background here: https://vintageportland.wordpress.com/tag/nudelman-furniture/
“I think this building is in the background here: https://vintageportland.wordpress.com/tag/nudelman-furniture/”
Good find but just 8 years later the building was already not doing well. Note the loss of the finials at each top corner that made it look like a Victorian cabinet. I wonder when it was built?
It has a name: “BR_ _ _ Block”. Any idea what the missing letters are?
Looking at the 1937 entry (posted in 2013), I’m surprised to see NO comments. I don’t recall seeing VP entries without comments before.
Interesting to note that the builders only “decorated” the street sides of the building, putting its best foot forward, this is demonstrated in the other link https://vintageportland.wordpress.com/tag/nudelman-furniture/
@Liz Cooksey: There are 10 comments to that post; you have to click on the comments link.
What an unusual building. I don’t think I’ve seen any other example of an architect using wood to mimic the prevailing cast iron elements on brick and masonry structures of the time.
Has there ever been a photo of Eastmoreland locations and/or Council Crest, especially what was an amusement park of some sort up there, I understand?
Well, there’s are favorite number man again. He’s been in so many photos. Anyone know his name or history?
I love this photo. Dave A.— I tried doing research on number man to no avail. Think he was a simple civil servant for the surveyors office.
Tygerpen …use search feature at top of page. Lots of Council Crest pics.
What is a number ma…just kidding!! 🙂
Not much to look at today.
Or across the street, down the hill to the river. Now, the southbound ramp.
This was the City View Hotel, located on the NW corner of the intersection at 293 and 203 1/2 Union (post street-renaming: 1531 and 1533 SE Union). The first mention of the hotel in the Oregonian archives was in 1892, and the last mention was in 1927, when someone was looking to sell the lease and the furniture. The last reference I could find to one of the addresses occurred in an obituary in 1937. By 1946, the building had been demolished and replaced by an auto service shop.