Levi Hexter House

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

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Levi Hexter House

| nrhp_type = cp

| designated_other1_name = Portland Historic Landmark{{citation|author=Portland Historic Landmarks Commission|title=Historic Landmarks -- Portland, Oregon|format=XLS|date=July 2010|url=http://www.portlandonline.com/planning/index.cfm?c=44013&a=146276|accessdate=November 7, 2013}}.

| designated_other1_color = lightgreen

| partof = King's Hill Historic District

| partof_refnum = 91000039

| image = Levi Hexter House Portland.JPG

| caption =

| location = 2326 SW Park Place
Portland, Oregon

| coordinates = {{coord|45.521096|-122.698844|region:US-OR_type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Portland downtown

| nocat = yes

| built = 1892–1893{{cite web |url= {{NRHP url|id=80003367}} |title= National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Hexter, Levi, House |date= February 12, 1980 |publisher= National Park Service |accessdate= December 8, 2015}}

| architecture = Queen Anne

| added = February 12, 1980

| refnum = 80003367

}}

The Levi Hexter House is a historic house located in southwest Portland, Oregon, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web|title=Oregon National Register List|publisher=Oregon Parks and Recreation Department|url=http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf|page=34|format=PDF|date=October 19, 2009|accessdate=June 8, 2011}} It is located within the King's Hill Historic District.

The house was built in 1892–1893 by Levi Hexter (1836–1897), a prominent Jewish businessman who founded the Hexter, May & Co. hardware store with Levi May. May helped found the Temple Beth Israel synagogue. Levi and Laura (née May) Hexter had two sons and three daughters who lived in the house (one son had died previous to the house's construction). After Laura Hexter's death in 1917, the house became a boarding house; and there are also unverified claims that the house was the site of bootlegging during Prohibition of the 1920s. Starting in the 1960s, it went through a complete restoration{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} by owner Robert Perron, a prominent Portland landscape architect responsible for the landscape designs of Terry Schrunk Plaza, the Portland Art Museum and Keller Auditorium.