Estacada, Oregon, is rejuvenating it’s downtown, and that includes renovating older buildings through adaptive reuse. … Read More Revitalizing Estacada’s main street, one building at a time
Fueled by beer, road food, lack of sleep and long stretches of driving on lonely roads, the trip was a success and it only solidified by own obsession with ghost towns.… Read More Ghost Towns Road Trip & Archives Unravel Oregon’s Wild West Mysteries
Milwaukie, Ore. has numerous mid-century gems. This is one of them.… Read More An under-appreciated mid-century spot in Milwaukie
The five-story building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and recently underwent a massive retrofit. … Read More Revived: Blake McFall Building
Where there’s old buildings there’s inevitably a ghost story attached to it. Here are some of Portland’s more well-known ghosts. … Read More Haunted houses and ghosts in Portland
What do you get when you take an 1800s church, a vision, and a love of beer? Angel’s Share Barrel House… Read More Retrofitting an old church in Turner, Oregon, into a brewery
A look at the the long-gone Portland Open-air Sanatorium, located in Milwaukie, Oregon. … Read More A brief history of Milwaukie’s Portland open-air sanatorium
Crowdfunding for retrofitting local buildings is an intriguing idea. One, the return is making your own neighborhood better or more livable and two the return is pretty immediate. … Read More Crowdfunding a neighborhood hang-out: Ye Olde Towne Crier
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