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On East Burnside Street you
may be surprised to see the stone archways at Southeast 33rd Avenue with
the name Laurelhurst carved into the stone pillar. Many years ago this
was the home of many of Portland s more affluent families. To augment
their living style, city officials created Laurelhurst Park, formerly part
of the William Ladd estate. Ladd was one of Portland s early settlers. The
Laurelhurst subdivision was platted in 1909 after the land was sold to the
Laurelhurst Company. The new subdivision was christened using the same
name used by the developers in a residential area in Seattle. Hurst is
an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning a wood or grove , and laurel seems to
have been chosen because of the shrubs growing in the vicinity of
Seattle s Laurelhurst, which is on a peninsula between Lake Washington and
Lake Union. To this day the park, which was designed by the same leading
New York firm which put together Central Park, has a quiet dignity. There
are gardens, wooded glens, and even a small lake. The lake is a habitat
for mallards, geese, and swans.
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