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The 1890 Edwin Rayworth house is in the path of a builder’s plans for two new condos.
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inner north and northeast Port­
land.
In a December blog and in let­
ters to various publications, Roos
gave the history of the house.
The last owner was Dan Mohrman,
who purchased the property in
2001. He had intended to restore
it, Roos wrote, but lost it to fore­
closure in 2010. Koshuba pur­
chased the house through his
Exceptional Homes company last
October.
“It is clear that our old, close-in
neighborhoods are under attack
from wealthy developers from the
suburbs,” Roos wrote. “We face
architectural pillage by them be­
cause the city is promoting high
density, and has a deaf ear for
historic preservation.”
The Boise neighborhood took
up the issue and has tried to work
cooperatively with Koshuba, but
according to Dao, he claims the
home’s crumbling foundation is
too costly to repair and he points
to zoning codes that would re­
quire building a second unit on
the property to meet minimum
density requirements.
Dao has contrary information
that the foundation is not as bad
as Koshuba paints it, and that the
zoning issue could be fixed by
creating a small accessory dwell­
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Portland special, are in danger of
Koshuba has offered to sell the becoming ‘Anywhere USA.’”
house for $1 to anyone willing to
move it off the property. Terry
Emmert of Emmert Construction, a
professional house mover, has of­
fered to knock $5,000 off his usual
fee of $75,000 for the job. But this
still requires finding a suitable va­
cant lot nearby and making the
job pencil out. According to Dao,
four people have considered do­
ing the job, and each has given
up.
Boise is now trying to get
Koshuba to renovate the house
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Both Dao and Cathy Galbraith
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iceberg in terms of threats to what
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