James C. Costello House
	Current Address: 2043 NE Tillamook Year Built: 1910 Status: Survives, restored 2002 Original Owner: James C. Costello Architect: Joseph Jacobberger and Alfred H. Smith, Architects Photo Source: Eugene Thayer Collection

From The Oregonian, July 3, 1910:

“Dotting the entire addition of Irvington are scars on the earth made by excavators starting work on new homes which are to be built and occupied before the Fall is over. A number of these homes are to cost between $10,000 and $25,000 and represent the finest type of close-in homes in Portland.

One of the finest of the new homes to be built and started at once is that for J.C. Costello, real estate operator.  The site is at Twenty-first and Tillamook streets, across from the Irvington Tennis Clubhouse.  The plans were prepared by Joseph Jacobberger and Alfred H. Smith architects. The plans are for a house which combines the Flemish and old English types of architecture.  The exterior is granite to the first story and stucco above. There will be a tiled roof.  The porch work will be of granite and a huge granite chimney will extend along the entire height of the exterior wall.

A glass and bronze marquise over the main entrance will be an added attraction to the exterior…  The interior of the house will be elegant.  The dining-room and hall will both have beamed ceilings and paneled wainscoting, with the woodwork in mahogany.  In the dining room will be built-in china closets. The living room, reception-room and billiard room will be finished in oak.  The bedrooms will be in white enamel. There will be 11 rooms, two with a bath being on the third floor. The cost will be $25,000.

This home was on the Irvington Home Tour in 2002.  It is also on the National Register of Historic Places.