Neighborhood representation | |
Association | Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Development Association (HAND) |
Coalition | Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Program |
Neighborhood geography | |
Area | 3.36 km² (PDF map) |
Location | Interactive map |
Demographics (2000) | |
Population | 6932 (density 2063/km²) |
Households | 3243 (96% occupied) |
Owned | 1660 (51%) |
Rented | 1583 (49%) |
Size | 2.14 persons (average) |
Hosford-Abernethy is a neighborhood in the inner Southeast section of Portland, Oregon. It borders Buckman and Sunnyside on the north, Richmond on the east, Brooklyn and Creston-Kenilworth on the south, and (across the Willamette River) Downtown Portland and South Portland on the west.
Hosford-Abernethy was named in the 1970s for two schools in the neighborhood, Hosford Middle School[1] (commemorating early Portland resident and Methodist minister Chauncey Hosford) and Abernethy Elementary School[2] (commemorating fellow Methodist minister and Provisional Governor of the Oregon Territory, George Abernethy).
The north central area of the neighborhood, with its distinctive X-shaped street pattern, is known as Ladd's Addition.
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is located on the riverfront of Hosford-Abernethy, at the southern end of the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade.