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Current Address: 1226 NE Thompson |
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Current Address: 1226 NE Thompson |
From The Oregonian, 1909:
“All in gray shingles with white trimmings, the home of A. H. Lea at the southwest corner of East Thirteenth and Thompson streets in Irvington is as good an example as can be found of the class of homes that is making Portland famous…
Roses and vines have been trained over the house and over the pergola at one side. There is an air of comfort and homeliness about the place that makes it attractive. Inside the same idea of comfort prevails… The living room is 14x27 feet and has a beamed ceiling. A fireplace is in the recess where a seat has been built in. Through French doors one passes to the pergola at the side of the house. The dining room is of good size… A sideboard has been built in.
Fir is the wood used for finishing, stained a warm, pleasant brown in the hall, living-room, and dining-room, and harmonizing perfectly with the wall tints. In the bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchen a white enamel finish has been given to the wood. The floors in the front rooms are of quarter-sawed oak with a good polish. All the fixtures are of a special artistic design.
In finishing the upstairs Mr. Lea told the architects he wanted something different, so they evolved a scheme to make the main room through the middle of the house look like a ship’s cabin… and the windows will be in the shape of port holes. On the door at one end will be arranged a pilot wheel. The woodwork here will be painted white”
For more information on the Lea House, including architectural plans and interior photographs, see the Northwest Architect Magazine, December, 1909, Volume I, No. 2, at the Wilson Rare Book Room of the Multnomah County Library
