place

Laurelhurst Park

1909 establishments in OregonLaurelhurst, Portland, OregonNational Register of Historic Places in Portland, OregonParks in Portland, OregonParks on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
Portland Historic LandmarksProtected areas established in 1909Southeast Portland, Oregon
Laurelhurst Park
Laurelhurst Park

Laurelhurst Park is a city park in the neighborhood of Laurelhurst in Portland, Oregon. The 26.81-acre (10.85 ha) park was acquired in 1909 from the estate of former Portland mayor William S. Ladd. The City of Portland purchased the land in 1911, and the following year park superintendent Emanuel Mische designed the park in accordance with the Olmsted Plan. In 1919, the Pacific Coast Parks Association named Laurelhurst Park the "most beautiful park" on the West Coast, and in February 2001 it was the first city park ever to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The park costs the city approximately $274,000 per year to maintain.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Laurelhurst Park (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Laurelhurst Park
Southeast 35th Avenue, Portland Laurelhurst

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Website External links Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Laurelhurst ParkContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 45.521388888889 ° E -122.62638888889 °
placeShow on map

Address

Laurelhurst Park (Ladd Park)

Southeast 35th Avenue
97214 Portland, Laurelhurst
Oregon, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Website
portland.gov

linkVisit website

linkWikiData (Q6500074)
linkOpenStreetMap (39415016)

Laurelhurst Park
Laurelhurst Park
Share experience

Nearby Places

Louis J. Bader House and Garden
Louis J. Bader House and Garden

The Louis J. Bader House and Garden in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon is a 2.5-story single dwelling and garden listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in Tudor Revival style in 1922, it was added to the register in 1989.Designed by DeYoung and Roald Architects of Portland, the L-shaped house sits on a 75-by-170-foot (23 by 52 m) lot opposite Laurelhurst Park. One of several luxurious houses in the neighborhood, it has a steeply pitched hip roof, tall multipaned leaded windows, massive chimneys, stucco cladding, and decorative half-timbers. The interior features oak and mahogany woodwork, Italian marble and tile, large fireplaces, ornate fixtures, and a built-in vacuum system. A ballroom, a billiards room, and a wine cellar are main features of the finished basement. The house also has a partly finished attic with a bedroom, maid's room, bathroom, and storage space. George Otten, a landscape engineer for the Oregon State Highway Commission, designed the property's formal garden, with paths of Italian marble, a sundial, a pergola, and a circular flower bed, among other features, at the rear of the house.Louis Bader, the original owner of the house, was a lumberman from Illinois who moved to Portland in 1910. He became involved in real-estate marketing, particularly in the Laurelhurst district. In 1909, the Ladd Estate Company, influenced by the ideas of Frederick Law Olmsted, had laid out Laurelhurst as a residential subdivision built on the Hazelfern Farm property of William M. Ladd. Bader, who financed construction of some of the houses in Laurelhurst, lived in the house with his wife, Lillie, and children until 1936. In 1938, the Baders sold the house to Merl Margason, a Portland neurologist.