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The 26th Annual Tour was a tremendous success with great weather and 1000+ happy guests.

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Ovation and Overview: Architects of Irvington -- an on-line lecture from the 2006 Tour
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Irvington's National Register Buildings (Plus a lot more about Historic Preservation!)
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Prairie Style Crafted by the Busy Rice Brothers was just one of the 8 homes on tour in 2008

Irvington in Brief...

Few city neighborhoods in the West have the variety and quality of early 20th Century residential architecture to equal Portland's historic Irvington Neighborhood. Portland's population boomed in the years after 1900, spurred by the 1905 Lewis Clark Exposition. With the west side of the Willamette River fully built up, the city expanded to the east side trolley car suburbs like Irvington in the years from 1900 through 1920.

Upper middle class Portlanders built substantial Irvington houses in the styles common to the period -- Arts and Crafts, Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Prairie Style, Bungalow -- many with an inventiveness and creative touch freed from East Coast architectural proprieties.

Despite some losses to urban development, Irvington retains its historic charm, with thousands of well maintained or recently restored homes. Come see for yourself...

Presented by
The Irvington Community Association
Irvington Neighborhood, Portland, Oregon, USA

The Irvington Community Association also maintains a website to provide services internal to the Irvington Community. We invite all Irvington neighbors and others interested in NE Portland community affairs to visit that site as well.