Ladd's Addition

{{Short description|Historic district in Portland, Oregon, U.S.}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Ladd's Addition Historic District

| nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes

| image = Laddsmap.jpg

| caption = Brick map of Ladd's Addition that was at the corner of SE 34th Avenue and SE Madison Street until roughly 2018.

| location = Portland, Oregon

| coordinates = {{coord|45.508539|-122.649413|region:US-OR_type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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| map_caption = Location of Ladd's Addition in Portland

| map_alt = Locator map

| area = {{convert|126|acre|km2}}

| built = {{start date|1905}}–{{end date|1930}}

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| added = August 31, 1988

| refnum = 88001310

| mpsub = {{efn|Although Ladd's Addition has not been formally, administratively associated with a National Register multiple property submission, it was featured in the background documentation for the Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830–1960, MPS.{{Citation | last1 = McClelland | first1 = Linda Flint | last2 = Ames | first2 = David L. | last3 = Pope | first3 = Sarah Dillard | date = December 22, 2004 | title = National Register of Historic Multiple Property Documentation Form: Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830–1960 | url = {{NRHP url|64500838}} | access-date = December 23, 2016 | format = PDF }}.}}

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Ladd's Addition is an inner southeast historic district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is Portland's oldest planned residential development, and one of the oldest in the western United States. The district is known in Portland for a diagonal street pattern, which is at odds with the rectilinear grid of the surrounding area. Roughly eight blocks (east-west) by ten blocks (north-south) in size (by reference to the surrounding grid), Ladd's is bordered by SE Hawthorne, Division, 12th, and 20th streets. It is part of the Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood association.

History

Ladd's Addition is named after William S. Ladd, a merchant and mid-19th-century Portland mayor who owned a {{convert|126|acre|adj=on}} farm on the land. In 1891 (when the city of East Portland was merged into Portland) Ladd subdivided the land for residential use. Rather than follow the standard orthogonal grid of the surrounding area, Ladd created a diagonal "wagon wheel" arrangement, including four small diamond-shaped rose gardens and a central traffic circle surrounding a park. It is also one of fewer than 20 areas in Portland that have alleyways, with street elevations mostly uninterrupted by curb cuts.{{cite web |title=PDX Alleys |url=https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=1LUMmBtzuuTOL65fJSrk1YzpPCpc&ll=45.529373553482806%2C-122.64196449999997&z=12 |website=Google maps |access-date=3 October 2018}} While it is said that Ladd's design was inspired by L'Enfant's Washington layout, it bears no actual resemblance to the Washington street plan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ladd_s_addition_portland_/#.X4et8tBKipo|title = Ladd's Addition}}

File:LA - Clark Residence - Portland Oregon.jpg

The homes in the district, mostly developed between 1905 and 1930 (after Ladd's death), have been called a "architecturally rich mix of compatible early 20th century styles," notable for their "continuity of scale, setback, orientation, and materials." Architectural styles represented include bungalow, craftsman, American Foursquare, Mission, Tudor, and Colonial Revival.

Development started at the north end, closest to the streetcar transportation, with the largest homes built between 1905 and 1915.

Though the earliest deeds excluded Japanese and Chinese residents, except as servants, after those covenants expired, Ladd's Addition was one of the few areas by 1939 informally designated as open to 'oriental' families.

File:Ladd's Addition Center Circle.jpg

Ecology

The narrow streets of Ladd's Addition are lined with American Elm trees. The Save Our Elms organization inoculates the elm trees yearly against Dutch elm disease.{{cite web|title= History of Save Our Elms|url= http://www.saveourelms.org/faq.html|access-date= 2007-08-30|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071008101723/http://www.saveourelms.org/faq.html|archive-date= 2007-10-08|url-status= dead}} Each of the four smaller, diamond-shaped "circles" to the east, west, north, and south contains one of Portland's rose test gardens.{{cite web|title=Ladd's Addition Rose Garden|publisher=Portland Rose Festival Association| url= http://www.rosegardenstore.org/laddsaddition.cfm|access-date=2007-08-30}} Friends of Ladd's Addition Gardens regularly solicits money and volunteers to maintain the rose gardens.{{cite web| title= Friends of Ladd's Addition Gardens| url=http://www.laddsadditiongardens.com/|access-date=2007-08-30 | publisher= laddsadditiongardens.com}} Ladd named most of the streets after trees, but he named SE Ladd Avenue and SE Elliott Avenue for himself and his wife, who was born Caroline Elliott.{{cite book | last =Snyder | first =Eugene E. | title =Portland Names and Neighborhoods | publisher =Binford and Mort | date =1979 | location =Portland | pages =38 | isbn =978-0832303470}}

Historic preservation

The area was designated a historic district by the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.{{cite web|title=Oregon National Register List|url=http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf|access-date=2007-08-30|publisher=oregon.gov|archive-date=2011-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609105953/http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Notes

References

;General references:

Portland Monthly, April 2007, 20 Best Neighborhoods, pages 78–79.

;Citations:

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{{cite web| url=http://www.nps.gov/tps/education/workingonthepast/case_studies/laddsaddition1.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124223516/http://www.nps.gov/tps/education/workingonthepast/case_studies/laddsaddition1.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 24, 2015 |title= Community History - Ladd's Addition, Portland |work= Illustrating Four Treatments in Oregon| publisher= National Park Service | access-date=2012-04-15}}

{{cite web| url= http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?action=ViewPark&PropertyID=221&c=38308 | title=Ladd Circle Park & Rose Gardens |publisher=Portland Parks & Recreation | access-date=2012-04-15}}

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External links

{{Commons category-inline|Ladd's Addition, Portland, Oregon}}

Category:1988 establishments in Oregon

Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon

Category:Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Oregon