Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00 – 4:30pm
Cost $10
The mayor has invited you to his home. No, it’s not Sam Adams’ place in NoPo. (Although, what do I know? I bet you get invited to a lot of places I don’t.) It’s H. Russell Albee, Portland’s progressive, parks-minded mayor of 100 years ago, who lived not in a humble home in Kenton but in the newly-developed Laurelhurst neighborhood, in a not-so-small house (mansion comes to mind) designed by the city’s most illustrious architect of the day, A.E. Doyle.
While Mayor Albee won’t be there to greet you, and the architect will have to let the building speak for him, the Architectural Heritage Center has arranged for the private home to be open to the public for self-guided tours the afternoon of Sunday December 11, 2011. They’ll also have on hand a couple of historians who are good stand-ins for the historical figures themselves.