Portland Homes
Subtitle: Illustrating Floor Plans and Exterior Views of Modern Homes
Publisher: The Columbian Press, Inc.
Published: 1928
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Harry B. Boland; Universal Plan Service; house plans; floor plans; exterior view; architecture; home building specialists; catalog
Description: <div>Thin, paperback booklet with brown covers. The front cover has an illustration of the exterior of a house in the top third. Underneath the house is the title, "Portland Homes." The copyright, edition, cost, and related company is printed in the lower two-thirds. All of information on the front cover is in black ink. The back cover is blank. The inside pages are black and white, and they all have a house illustration in the top half, and the floor plan underneath. The back page of the booklet has a "Classified Directory of Home Building Specialists" in Portland, Oregon. The booklet shows wearing along the edges. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>From the website: http://antiquehomestyle.com/plans/universal-plan/index.htm<br /></div><div><p>"Universal Plan Service was in business for about 25 years in Portland. </p>
    <p><em>Portland Homes</em> was in its second edition when it was 
published in 1926. Its designer and arranger, was Harry B. Boland, a 
young architect from Montana. Boland was the youngest son of an Irish 
miner, Maurice Boland, and his wife Marie. In 1917, at the time of the 
WWI draft registration, Boland was working as a draftsman/architect for 
Ballard Planning Co. in Spokane, but by 1920 he had moved to Seattle 
where the US Census shows him again as a draftsman.</p>
    <p>More research is needed to determine how Boland came to Portland 
and how he ended up with the Universal Plan Service. According to one 
source at the City of Seattle, he may have been in a partnership with E.
 Glen Morgan, who trained at UC Berkeley, though it's not clear whether 
Morgan actually got his degree in architecture. Boland and Morgan may 
have met in Seattle, where Morgan worked as a building estimator in 
1920.</p>
    <p>It is clear that  company attracted a number of talented 
architects who went on to establish their own practices. After a stint 
at Universal Plan, Howard Lester Gifford designed the beautiful NW icon,
 Timberline Lodge during the Depression.  Don Byers worked during the 
1940s for the company and later made his mark as a prominent Portland 
architect of mid-century modern buildings both residential and 
commercial."</p></div><div>Size: 7.5" x 10.75"</div>