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Levi Hexter House

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Built
  
1892–1893

Added to NRHP
  
12 February 1980

NRHP Reference #
  
80003367

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Location
  
2326 SW Park PlacePortland, Oregon

Part of
  
Architectural style
  
Queen Anne style architecture

Similar
  
Durham–Jacobs House, William and Annie MacMast, Stratton–Cornelius House, Francis R Chown House, Charles J and Elsa Schnabel

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. 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 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.

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Levi Hexter House Wikipedia


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