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Current Address: 2112 NE Tillamook |
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Current Address: 2112 NE Tillamook |
The Wells-Mead House was one of the most finely detailed homes ever constructed on Portland's East Side. It was demolished to make way for construction of a church building.
From The Oregonian, November 8, 1908, page 8:
“The Wells-Mead residence at the corner of East 21st and Tillamook Street will be ready for occupancy December 1. This modern residence comprises ten rooms, aside from reception, finished attic, child’s room, and dressing-rooms. It is heated with hot water, with the living room and dining room finished in white quarter-sawed Eastern oak, and the parlor, reception-room, stairs, and upper hall in mahogany. The entire toilets and bathrooms are in tile with high-grade white enamel plumbing throughout.
The basement is supplied with a complete laundry, fruit and vegetable room. The foundation work is in blue-gray stone, the first story is treated with colonial lap siding and the second story and gables in splash-coat exterior plaster treatment. The entire building is glazed with plate glass with the entrance and cozy windows executed in beautiful beveled plate glass designs. The cost of the home will approximate $20,000.”
For more information on the Wells-Mead House, including architectural plans and interior photographs, see the Northwest Architect Magazine, July, 1910, Volume II, No. 3, at the Wilson Rare Book Room of the Multnomah County Library
