King's Hill Historic District Guidelines, City of Portland

From introduction: "Neighborhood interest in creating a historic district in King’s Hill dates to the late 1970s, when the area was identified by neighborhood residents as a potential historic district. The Kings Hill community of property owners, residents, volunteers, and historic preservation professionals collaborated to realize that potential. After a twenty-year effort and some funding support from the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), their goal was realized with the local designation of the Kings Hill Historic District in January 1991. Its listing in the National Register of Historic Places followed shortly after. Like the effort to create a historic district, long-standing community interest in design issues in the Kings Hill area generated this project to develop design guidelines tailored for the Kings Hill Historic District. Soon after the districts listing in the National Register of Historic Places, the Kings Hill community contacted the Bureau of Planning (BOP) to see if specialized design guidelines could be developed for the district. The BOP agreed that tailored guidelines would respond more sensitively and appropriately to design issues in the area than the general guidelines adapted from the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, which have been used as approval criteria since the adoption of the district. In May 2000, the BOP applied for and received a grant from the SHPO to develop such guidelines... The guidelines for the Kings Hill Historic District are intended to guide exterior alterations of existing buildings (including additions) and new construction. The guidelines are designed to maintain and preserve those qualities that make the King’s Hill Historic District a unique historic neighborhood. They promote the continued integrity and identity of the district in three broad areas, which are addressed under the following guideline headings: Area Character, Pedestrian Emphasis, Project Design." Funding was provided in part by a 2000 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Portland (project number OR-00-16) administered by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

King's Hill Historic District Guidelines, City of Portland

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