Also known as. Architecture of Ellis F. Lawrence MPS
Census division. Portland West
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
Architect. Lawrence & Holford
National Register reference number.90001515- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
1 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Maurice Seitz House
in 2001, burning about 7,500 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
32 workings within 5 miles of Maurice Seitz House: 23 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Portland, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 6 heavy rain, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Heavy rain resulted in urban flooding across the Portland metro area. All Amtrack and freight trains were shut down between Portland and Vancouver due to flooding. A mobile home park in Gresham flooded. There were a couple of land slides on Highway 30 where debris covered the highway. One of these slides was near German Town Road. The other slide was near the St John's Bridge, hit a car (with no injuries) as it happened, and covered all lanes of Highway 30.
Heavy rain caused culverts and low-lying urban areas to flood, including 4th and Morrison. Also flooding was reported at the Portland State University Bookstore.
The top of a 70-foot tree, estimated between 20 and 20 inches in diameter, was snapped off in downtown Portland at the intersection of SW Salmon Street and Park Avenue. A passer-by was nearly hit as it fell to the ground. Time of the event is estimated based nearby reports from the storm.
Standing water reported near NE 28th Ave between Glisan and Burnside. Trimet MAX lines were temporarily closed due to standing water between Lloyd Center and Hollywood. Rain guage at the Portland Airport reported 0.82 of an inch of rain.
A thunderstorm moving through Multnomah County produced lightning that hit a tree which fell on power lines causing a power outage to about 1600 customers.
A reporter from the Hillsboro Argus newspaper reported 3/4 inch hail near 33rd Ave and Columbia Boulevard in Portland. This is unusually large hail for the Portland area away from mountains or foothills.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.