Bruns were selling off the last of the Munley herd:Ī nearby dairy existed just to the east as well: the Pearson Place, the cow pasture where Alameda School was eventually built. Location of the former Irvington Dairy barn at NE 21st and Fremont, looking northeast, December 2018.īetween the terrible fire and an early 1920s resurgence in Portland’s real estate values, the time was nearing when Munley and Barron would execute the land use change and end the property’s agricultural past. We did not find a follow-up news story about the fire investigation. The house remembered by Rod Paulson was home to dairy manager Grimm and his family. The address given–725 Fremont–is from Portland’s old addressing system and translates into the NE corner of 21st and Fremont. The Irvington Dairy operated from a barn situated at the northeast corner of NE 21st and Fremont from the 1890s until 1916 when a catastrophic fire destroyed much of the herd and the barn.įrom the Oregon Journal, January 11, 1916. Ferguson, president of the Alameda Land Company which owned land just up the hill. Not coincidentally, Munley was son-in-law of E.Z. Barron bought the future Homedale property in 1905 for $6,500 and kept it in agricultural use with an eye to eventual development, but market conditions didn’t make that worthwhile until the 1920s. The once and future orchard, near NE 19th and Mason, December 2018. We’ve wondered about this: are isolated apple trees from the early orchard days still out there scattered across this part of the neighborhood? Can any readers confirm? In a happy coincidence, the Sabin Community Association has planted a small orchard of young trees near NE 19th and Mason, on ground that probably once was part of the old orchard: “There was another farmhouse set back a considerable distance from the street more or less in the eastern part of the orchard, and a barn was situated opposite the end of 23rd Avenue.” This house dated back to the 1890s or before and people lived there in apparent comfort in a rural setting, yet in the midst of modern houses that in all directions.” The trees grew right down to the edge of the Fremont Street walk and there were several old buildings on the place, residential and otherwise, including a large farmhouse painted light brown which was located close to Fremont in the vicinity of 21st Avenue. “Before 19 when city lots were staked out, much of this was an apple orchard, the remnants of which can still be seen in some back yards. Read on, from local resident Rod Paulson written in January 1976: We’ve come across several interesting descriptions that will feed your curiosity and the way you think about this landscape. While today it’s an orderly grid of streets and homes dating from 1922, less than 100 years ago the sloping landscape just below Alameda ridge that you see here was an important part of Portland’s eastside agriculture. We’ve created a category here on the blog ( The Plats) to hold our ongoing exploration of these stories. We all live somewhere in a plat and each has its own unique story, players and moment in history. ![]() ![]() Think of a plat as a road map filed by developers for organizing property into individual lots and streets (read more about the relationship between plats and neighborhoods here). Here’s a look at the geography.ĭetail from the Homedale Plat, filed in 1921. Today, it’s considered part of the Alameda neighborhood. Homedale is the name of the property plat-once part of an orchard and dairy-that occupies the landscape bounded roughly by Fremont and Ridgewood, between NE 19th and NE 24th.
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