Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Oregon

Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Oregon

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.

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