This little blue house has always been one of my favorites on this street. But it will soon not be a house any longer.
The house at 1350 N. Watts was built in 1925, has 730 square feet, plus an unfinished basement and a 500 square foot detached garage.
The assessor detail on PortlandMaps tells me that it sold in April for $330,000. It’s prior sale was in 2003 and was for $142,000. (O! If only I could have bought when I first got to Portland!) It sold for $79,900 in 1997 and $26,000 in 1994.
Goodbye little blue house, with the unfortunately pruned apple tree in the front yard. I will miss you.
Wow! That summation of house values in it’s little history is a telling story of the area.
Too bad is right!
Is it actually gone now?
Yep it’s gone.
I’m trying to get to a different place–one other than that of profound loss–when houses go down. I support the theory behind increased density, and my own house was only built because a small house was sacrificed.
Though I do think the city needs to get on a permitting system for street parking ASAP.
Not anticipated by me when I took that picture but currently being experienced is the fact that what they are building there is multi-storied and is changing my view from my desk. Until this point, my first glimpse of sunrise has been a patch of sky that is now being obscured by upper floors on that lot. And I’ve had a lot of mornings staring at the first rays of sun because early mornings were when I used to do my writing.