Hopefully, during your travels, you do not find yourself stuck in an "historic" snow and ice storm, causing 300k people to go without power for days, numerous car accidents, road and airport closures. But, by the off chance you do, Tim's beautiful home is an excellent place to end up!
The entire house is beautiful with hardwood floors, windows and trim, period art and furnishings, historic huge whine oak trees, and an amazing view of the Willamette. The space is larger than it looks and yet we felt very cozy in our surroundings.
The home is historic. The son of one of Oregon's most famous lumber barons - Simon Benson built the home in 1910 for his son Amos. Of note the grand entrance to the house does not face the road, but rather the river, the main form of transportation of the day. The top floor, where we stayed, was called the 'ballroom" and it is easy to imagine some wonderful galas back in the day!
Tim is an experienced host and it shows. He was keenly interested in our comfort at all times and was very accommodating and communicative when we needed to add a day due to the loss of power at our home (day seven now and counting). St. Johns is a becoming the cool hip place to be in Portland but still maintains much of its working class roots. If you want to have a great weekend getaway, in a cool part of Portland, this is a great place to do it!
We will be back!