Albert Gambell was a self-employed designer and homebuilder in the Portland area and is listed as such in the Portland directory intermittently from 1923 to 1956. Very few buildings designed by Gambell have been identified. Gambell died in 1971 at the age of 70. 1930Smith HouseLocation: LakewoodDisposition: ExtantAlterations: MajorPhotos: Courtesy of John Hedlund … [Read more...] about Architects: Albert Gambell
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1925 Lakewood
Lakewood, Beside the Lake, Beneath the Trees A 1925 advertisement declared “Of all Lake Oswego’s districts Lakewood is the most accessible—the nearest—possessed of modern advantages. There is no more beautiful spot anywhere.” A decade earlier Ward Cotton Smith had come “out to Oswego to look for the lake and we found a mud hole down here on State Street.” The marsh that … [Read more...] about 1925 Lakewood