Building Blocks: A Pictorial History of Lake Oswego’s Neighborhoods
The Building Blocks exhibit outlines the history and growth of Lake Oswego and is now on display at the Lakewood Center for the Arts through April. This extensive 20-panel project is the result of many hours of dedicated research by local historians Marylou Colver, Corinna Campbell-Sack, and Erin O’Rourke-Meadors. Many thanks are owed to the staff of the City of Lake Oswego, Lake Oswego Public Library, Lake Oswego Blueprint, the Lakewood Center for the Arts, and the Oswego Heritage Council for providing the many resources used in the displays.
See the complete exhibit at Suite 101 of Lake View Village, 315 First Street, Lake Oswego. It is open from 10am-8pm, Wednesday-Saturday and will stay at this location until the end of June. Afterward it will be moved to Luscher Farm for the Centennial Festival on July 17th.
Explore all 20 panels listed below, then download a PDF to see each panel in its entirety.
1926 Lake View Villas Expansion
Palisades’ and Blue Heron’s Beginnings
1979 – 1984 Holly Orchard and Westlake
From Agriculture to Neighborhoods
- Building Blocks: A Pictorial History of Lake Oswego’s Neighborhoods
- Transportation – How It Shaped Our Neighborhoods
- Donation Land Claims - The First Neighbors
- 1850 Oswego – The Town’s Beginnings
- 1883 South Oswego – The Second Neighborhood
- 1888 First Addition – Oswego’s Third Neighborhood
- 1908 Glenmorrie – The Manifold Charms of this Peerless Homesite
- Ladd Estate Company – Nature as the Antidote to Civilization
- 1912 Lake View Villas - The Only Suburban Lake Resort Near Portland
- 1922 – Oswego Lake Villas – The First East End Lakeside Development
- 1925 Lakewood – Beside the Lake – Beneath the Trees
- County Club District – A Dream Come True
- 1925 Forest Hills – A Restricted Residential District
- 1926 Forest Hills Expansion – Uplands’ Beginnings
- 1926 Lake View Villas Expansion – Palisades’ and Blue Heron’s Beginnings
- 1932 Forest Hills Acres – Out of the City – Into the Country
- 1968 Mountain Park – Nature’s Neighborhood
- 1979 – 1984 Holly Orchard and Westlake – From Agriculture to Neighborhoods
- 1989 Foothills – From Industry to a Neighborhood
- A Town Transformed – Turning Iron Into Gold