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Creston Kenilworth, Portland, Oregon

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Country
  
United States

City
  
Portland

Number of households
  
3,514

State
  
Oregon

Area
  
207 ha

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Restaurants
  
Shut Up and Eat, C Bar, Bird + Bear / Food & Drink, Yoko's Japanese Restaura, The Gladstone Street Piz

Creston-Kenilworth is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon, lying between SE 26th Ave. on the west and SE Foster Rd. (to SE 61st Ave.) on the east, and between SE Powell Blvd. on the north and SE Holgate Blvd. on the south. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn to the west, Hosford-Abernethy, and Richmond to the north, Foster-Powell and Mt. Scott-Arleta to the east, and Reed and Woodstock to the south.

Map of Creston - Kenilworth, Portland, OR, USA

Parks include Creston Park (1920) and Kenilworth Park (1909).

According to Portland Parks & Recreation, the Kenilworth neighborhood was platted in 1889 and is "named after Sir Walter Scott's 1821 novel Kenilworth, a romantic novel set in Elizabethan England. Many of the streets in the neighborhood took their names from this novel and other novels by Scott."

References

Creston-Kenilworth, Portland, Oregon Wikipedia