Comments on: Olmstead Park http://alamedahistory.org/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/ Connecting Past and Present in Northeast Portland's Historic Homes Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:52:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Doug http://alamedahistory.org/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-1873 Doug Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:10:33 +0000 http://alamedahistory.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-1873 Hi Helen. Thanks for coming to the lecture today, and for your note here on the website. I enjoyed meeting many neighbors and learning more about the neighborhood myself. -Doug Hi Helen. Thanks for coming to the lecture today, and for your note here on the website. I enjoyed meeting many neighbors and learning more about the neighborhood myself.

-Doug

]]> By: Helen Stewart http://alamedahistory.org/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-1872 Helen Stewart Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:26:33 +0000 http://alamedahistory.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-1872 Hi Doug, I attended your lecture today at AHC. Enjoyed learning about my neighborhood. My property is in Alameda Park but includes the very northeast corner of Olmstead Park,a sliver of land. Your lecture helped to explain why both are mentioned on my deed. Thanks! Hi Doug,
I attended your lecture today at AHC. Enjoyed learning about my neighborhood. My property is in Alameda Park but includes the very northeast corner of Olmstead Park,a sliver of land. Your lecture helped to explain why both are mentioned on my deed.
Thanks!

]]> By: Michelle http://alamedahistory.org/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-382 Michelle Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:14:37 +0000 http://alamedahistory.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-382 Hi Doug, This is so exciting...a friend just gave me the book "The Devil in the White City" to read. It is actually kind of a murder mystery, but centers around the 1893 World's Fair and the landscape architect Olmstead. My friend then described the Vanderbilt home back in South Carolina that she had visited that was also landscaped by Olmstead at the same time he was designing the world's fair project. The name stuck a cord with me, I googled Olmstead Park, Portland, Oregon and lo and behold, found your website and my my street Edgehill Place, which I never knew was previously named Laura! Our original number was 999, ...I wonder what other street secrets there are?! Anyway, just thought this was fun and I learned something and wanted to say thank you! Hi Doug,
This is so exciting…a friend just gave me the book “The Devil in the White City” to read. It is actually kind of a murder mystery, but centers around the 1893 World’s Fair and the landscape architect Olmstead. My friend then described the Vanderbilt home back in South Carolina that she had visited that was also landscaped by Olmstead at the same time he was designing the world’s fair project. The name stuck a cord with me, I googled Olmstead Park, Portland, Oregon and lo and behold, found your website and my my street Edgehill Place, which I never knew was previously named Laura! Our original number was 999, …I wonder what other street secrets there are?! Anyway, just thought this was fun and I learned something and wanted to say thank you!

]]> By: Doug http://alamedahistory.org/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-42 Doug Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:11:59 +0000 http://alamedahistory.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-42 Exactly right. And Laura became Edgehill. Even though Lombard was on the plat map, I believe it never made it to the actual street...it's always been Dunckley. Glenn, on the other hand, was Glenn until 1931. And then there is Alameda Terrace (in the Olmsted Park addition) which was Woodworth until the early 1930s until taking the name we know today. For more on the background behind our local street names, have a look at the page here on this site: http://alamedahistory.wordpress.com/alameda-stories/alameda-street-names/ Exactly right. And Laura became Edgehill. Even though Lombard was on the plat map, I believe it never made it to the actual street…it’s always been Dunckley. Glenn, on the other hand, was Glenn until 1931. And then there is Alameda Terrace (in the Olmsted Park addition) which was Woodworth until the early 1930s until taking the name we know today. For more on the background behind our local street names, have a look at the page here on this site: http://alamedahistory.wordpress.com/alameda-stories/alameda-street-names/

]]> By: Jack Bog http://alamedahistory.org/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-41 Jack Bog Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:56:20 +0000 http://alamedahistory.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/olmstead-park/#comment-41 Somewhere along the line, Lombard became Dunckley, and Glenn became 32nd Place. Somewhere along the line, Lombard became Dunckley, and Glenn became 32nd Place.

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