Editing Ladd's Addition

{{Short description|Historic district in Portland, Oregon, U.S.}}
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{{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|Portland]], [[Oregon]]
 | coordinates = {{coord|45.508539|-122.649413|region:US-OR_type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = <!-- Portland -->
 | map_caption = Location of Ladd's Addition in Portland
 | map_alt = Locator map
 | area = {{convert|126|acre|km2}}
 | built = {{start date|1905}}&ndash;{{end date|1930}}<ref name="nps"/>
 | architect =
 | architecture = 
 | 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.<ref name="SuburbsMPS">{{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 }}.</ref>}}
}}
'''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]].<ref name="nps"/> 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, Portland, Oregon|Hawthorne]], Division, 12th, and 20th streets. It is part of the [[Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Oregon|Hosford-Abernethy]] [[neighborhood association]].

==History==
Ladd's Addition is named after [[William S. Ladd]], a merchant and mid-19th-century [[List of mayors of Portland, Oregon|Portland mayor]] who owned a {{convert|126|acre|adj=on}} farm on the land.<ref name="portonline"/> In 1891 (when the city of [[East Portland, Oregon|East Portland]] was merged into Portland) Ladd [[Subdivision (land)|subdivided]] the land for residential use.<ref name="nps"/>  Rather than follow the standard orthogonal [[Grid plan|grid]] of the surrounding area, Ladd created a diagonal "wagon wheel" arrangement, including four small diamond-shaped [[rose garden]]s and a central [[traffic circle]] surrounding a park.  It is also one of fewer than 20 areas in Portland that have [[Alley#United States|alleyways]], with street elevations mostly uninterrupted by [[curb cut]]s.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="nps"/> 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.<ref name="Ladd's Addition">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ladd_s_addition_portland_/#.X4et8tBKipo|title = Ladd's Addition}}</ref>

[[File:LA - Clark Residence - Portland Oregon.jpg|thumb|One of the homes in Ladd's Addition, located on SE Elliott Avenue.]]

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 (architecture)|setback]], orientation, and materials."<ref name="nps"/> [[National Register of Historic Places architectural style categories|Architectural styles]] represented include [[bungalow]], [[American Craftsman|craftsman]], [[American Foursquare]], [[Mission Revival Style architecture|Mission]], [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor]], and [[Colonial Revival architecture|Colonial Revival]].<ref name="nps"/>

Development started at the north end, closest to the streetcar transportation, with the largest homes built between 1905 and 1915.<ref name="Ladd's Addition"/>

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.<ref name="Ladd's Addition"/>

[[File:Ladd's Addition Center Circle.jpg|thumb|The central traffic circle in Ladd's Addition.]]

==Ecology==
The narrow streets of Ladd's Addition are lined with [[Ulmus americana|American Elm]] trees. The Save Our Elms organization inoculates the elm trees yearly against [[Dutch elm disease]].<ref name=SOE>{{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}}</ref> Each of the four smaller, diamond-shaped "circles" to the east, west, north, and south contains one of Portland's [[rose test gardens]].<ref name=Rose>{{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}}</ref> Friends of Ladd's Addition Gardens regularly solicits money and volunteers to maintain the rose gardens.<ref name=FLAG>{{cite web| title= Friends of Ladd's Addition Gardens| url=http://www.laddsadditiongardens.com/|access-date=2007-08-30 | publisher= laddsadditiongardens.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Historic preservation==
The area was designated a [[Historic district (United States)|historic district]] by the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1988.<ref name=ORNRHP>{{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}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Ladd Carriage House]]
*[[Meridian, Seattle]]
*[[St. Sharbel Maronite Catholic Church]]
*[[Tangletown, Minneapolis]]
*[[Longview, Washington]]
*[[Ladds 500]]

==Notes==
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==References==
;General references:
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* ''[[Portland Monthly]]'', April 2007, 20 Best Neighborhoods, pages 78–79.
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;Citations:
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<ref name="nps">{{cite web| url=http://www.nps.gov/tps/education/workingonthepast/case_studies/laddsaddition1.htm |title= Community History - Ladd's Addition, Portland |work= Illustrating Four Treatments in Oregon| publisher= [[National Park Service]] | access-date=2012-04-15}}</ref>
<ref name="portonline">{{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}}</ref>
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Ladd's Addition, Portland, Oregon}}

{{Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Oregon}}
{{Portland neighborhoods}}
{{National Register of Historic Places Oregon}}

[[Category:1988 establishments in Oregon]]
[[Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon]]
[[Category:Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Oregon]]