Alameda Old House History

The turret house at 3880 NE Wistaria, built in 1928, has been through hard times the last 30 years. A Portland brother and sister duo who restore old homes purchased the house in February 2026 and are underway with restoration. New owners of the turret house at 3880 NE Wistaria have begun restoration work on the unique and visible 1928 home, tackling the biggest challenge first: decades of unaddressed water damage to the garage, porch and southern exterior wall. Siblings Amber Chang and Kyle…

It’s been a busy winter preparing history studies for properties all over Portland, working on the historic newspaper project and some other deep dives, and making presentations on local history topics. It’s what we love to do, so we’re happily busy. But all that work has borrowed time from the blog, which has been on […]

Rose City Herald front page, August 29, 1930 The Rose City Herald was a weekly broadsheet newspaper published from 1922-1944 covering the middle neighborhoods of Northeast Portland: Rose City Park, Gregory Heights, Irvington, Alameda, Beaumont, Wilshire, Sullivan’s Gulch and Kerns. That far back, the name “Hollywood” had not yet been coined: that would have to […]