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9 Southeast q Crystal Springs
Division Street Rhododendron
SE Division Street corridor, from SE Garden
19th St to SE 45th St. SE 28th Ave & SE Woodstock Blvd.
Not long ago, Southeast Tel (503) 771-8386. @ 19.
Division Street was a thorough- Open Apr–Sep: 6am–10pm daily;
fare known for hard ware shops, Oct–Mar: 6am–6pm daily. & (free
auto-body repair and seedy Mon & Tue). 7
blue-collar bars. However, a
series of high-profile restaurants This garden is laced with trails
have opened, making this that cross streams, pass beneath
stretch the hottest area on the misty cascades, and circle a
Portland dining scene. It began spring-fed lake attracting
in 2005 with Andy Ricker’s wildly ducks, geese, herons, and other
Street shopping in Portland’s funky popular Thai cocktail and snack waterfowl. The garden erupts
Hawthorne District shack, Pok Pok (see p295), which into a breathtaking blaze of
has since expanded to NYC color during spring through to
8 Hawthorne and inspired a bestselling early summer, when hundreds
District cookbook. The culinary streak of species of rare rhododendrons
has intensified with exciting, and azaleas – one of the world’s
NE Hawthorne Blvd, from SE 17th to quirky farm-to-table concept leading collections of these
SE 39th Sts.
restaurants and cafés springing woodland plants – are in bloom.
An east-side residential and up one after another. From
business area somewhat old-world Italian at Ava Gene’s
reminiscent of parts of Berkeley, to small-batch ice cream in
California, the Hawthorne experimental, savory flavors
District is hip, funky, and at Salt & Straw, diners can
bustling with young people, restaurant-hop their way
many of whom attend nearby down this street full of “it” eats.
Reed College. Hawthorne
Boulevard is lined with coffee-
houses, clothing boutiques, 0 Sellwood District
bookstores, bakeries, delis, and SE 13th to SE 17th Aves, from SE
restaurants, several serving ethnic Tacoma St to SE Bybee Blvd. The serene lake at Crystal Springs
foods, including Vietnamese, Rhododendron Garden
Indian, Lebanese, and Ethiopian. Sellwood, a quiet residential
Buskers add their sounds to the neighborhood on a bluff
area’s vibrant street scene. above the Willamette River in w Reed College
The district’s surrounding the southeast corner of the 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Tel (503)
residential neighborhoods, city, has become the antiques 771-1112. @ 19. Grounds: Open
dating from the early 20th center of Portland. Long gone dawn–dusk daily. ∑ reed.edu
century, were among Portland’s are the days when Sellwood
first so-called “streetcar suburbs.” was a bargain-hunter’s paradise, Founded in 1908 with a bequest
Of these, Ladd’s Addition is but shoppers continue to from Oregon pioneers Simeon
one of the oldest planned descend upon Sellwood’s 30 and Amanda Reed, Reed College
communities in the western US. or so antique shops – many occupies a wooded campus
Built in a circular grid of streets of which occupy old Victorian at the edge of Eastmoreland,
that surround five rose gardens, houses along Southeast 13th one of Port land’s most beautiful
the plan was considered Avenue, known as Antique residential neigh bor hoods.
radical when it was laid out Row. They may then enjoy Brick Tudor Gothic buildings,
in 1939. Today, the area boasts a meal in one of the area’s along with others designed in
many styles of 20th-century many restaurants or in the traditional Northwest timber
architecture: bungalow, adjoining Westmoreland style, are set amid rolling lawns
craftsman, mission, Colonial neighborhood. surrounding the “canyon,” a
Revival, and Tudor. The riverbank just below the wooded wetland; shade is
To the east, Hawthorne Sellwood bluff is made festive provided by 125 species of
Boulevard ascends the slopes by the presence of the Ferris maples, cedars, and other trees.
of Mount Tabor, an extinct wheel, roller coaster, roller- Reed has produced the second-
volcano whose crater is now skating rink, and other highest number of Rhodes
surrounded by a lovely forested attractions of Oaks Park, a scholars of all US liberal arts
park, popular with picnickers. shady amusement park that colleges. The college also hosts
Walking trails are to be found opened during the 1905 Lewis several public events such as
throughout the park. and Clark Exposition (see p44). plays, lectures, and concerts.
For hotels and restaurants see p286 and pp294–6

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