House60 On The Record
I now know a little more about House60's history than I once did.
Between 1947 and 1948 a sewer line was planned and added to the street for the address where House60 sits. At the time the street was not paved but was oiled gravel. The plans included a map with notations but also a cross-section drawing indicating slope and depth. The 10 inch cement sewer pipe was laid at a 1.1% grade from a high point of 133.63 feet above sea level (10.37 feet below the street) to 126.47 feet above sea level (11.28 feet below the street). So while the sewer pipe was at a 1.1% grade, the road was only slightly less steep, but enough for surface water runoff to flow to one end of the street.
This means that at least up until 1947...for the first 4 decades the house was present...there was no sewer service. Houses on this block had septic tanks or similar onsite sewage processing. New Deal Construction Company completed the sewer on two sides of a block on August 25, 1948. I believe the purpose in adding the sewer was to support an apartment complex coming in about that same time.
Not sure if House60 hooked up to the sewer immediately or waited. Another house on the block, apparently, did not hook up until the 21st Century!
Photographs to help determine zoning, labeled "Land Use Slides" were taken on December 31, 1964 and one of them featured House60 in the foreground. I paid for six of the slides to be scanned in high resolution which I should be able to pick up on-line possibly by Monday or Tuesday.
The house looks very much like it does to-day, but the enclosed porch looks fresher with very white paint. The asbestos tiles are installed by this time.
The neighborhood looked a bit different, but the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was there along with the Fred Meyer sign along N. Lombard. Of course, House60's "twin" is also there. I hope to get scans of those images. A few of the houses in the neighborhood which were there in 1964 are not there to-day. When I get the scans I hope to figure out where those were: it was difficult to get full details looking at slides on a small light table even through a magnifying glass.
I was able to get photographs of the sewer plan but as I was getting high-resolution scans of the slides I didn't bother trying to take pictures of those. In retrospect I should have done so.
It took me almost two decades to visit the City of Portland Archives and Records Center when it was open. I hope I get what I need from this visit.
Between 1947 and 1948 a sewer line was planned and added to the street for the address where House60 sits. At the time the street was not paved but was oiled gravel. The plans included a map with notations but also a cross-section drawing indicating slope and depth. The 10 inch cement sewer pipe was laid at a 1.1% grade from a high point of 133.63 feet above sea level (10.37 feet below the street) to 126.47 feet above sea level (11.28 feet below the street). So while the sewer pipe was at a 1.1% grade, the road was only slightly less steep, but enough for surface water runoff to flow to one end of the street.
This means that at least up until 1947...for the first 4 decades the house was present...there was no sewer service. Houses on this block had septic tanks or similar onsite sewage processing. New Deal Construction Company completed the sewer on two sides of a block on August 25, 1948. I believe the purpose in adding the sewer was to support an apartment complex coming in about that same time.
Not sure if House60 hooked up to the sewer immediately or waited. Another house on the block, apparently, did not hook up until the 21st Century!
Photographs to help determine zoning, labeled "Land Use Slides" were taken on December 31, 1964 and one of them featured House60 in the foreground. I paid for six of the slides to be scanned in high resolution which I should be able to pick up on-line possibly by Monday or Tuesday.
The house looks very much like it does to-day, but the enclosed porch looks fresher with very white paint. The asbestos tiles are installed by this time.
The neighborhood looked a bit different, but the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was there along with the Fred Meyer sign along N. Lombard. Of course, House60's "twin" is also there. I hope to get scans of those images. A few of the houses in the neighborhood which were there in 1964 are not there to-day. When I get the scans I hope to figure out where those were: it was difficult to get full details looking at slides on a small light table even through a magnifying glass.
I was able to get photographs of the sewer plan but as I was getting high-resolution scans of the slides I didn't bother trying to take pictures of those. In retrospect I should have done so.
It took me almost two decades to visit the City of Portland Archives and Records Center when it was open. I hope I get what I need from this visit.