The Hillsdale district is a neighborhood in the southwest section of
Portland
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,
Oregon
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,
United States
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. It is centered on the Hillsdale retail and business area, a series of
strip malls
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on
SW Capitol Highway between SW Sunset Boulevard and SW Bertha Boulevard. It is home to the Hillsdale Farmer's Market, which takes place on Sundays during the summer and every other Sunday during the winter. Hillsdale is also home to Oregon's first brewpub, with the opening of
McMenamins
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Hillsdale Brewery in 1985.
A cornerstone of the neighborhood is the Hillsdale Library, which opened in 1957. The building closed in 2001 for remodeling, and reopened March 4, 2004. When completed, the library was named a Certified Gold LEED Building. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. It was the first LEED building in Portland. As of 2019, the Hillsdale Library is the fifth busiest branch in Multnomah County.
Hillsdale borders
Southwest Hills,
Healy Heights, and
Homestead
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*Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses
* Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres
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on the north,
South Portland on the east,
South Burlingame and
Multnomah on the south, and
Hayhurst and
Bridlemile on the west.
Oregon Route 10
Oregon Route 10 is an Oregon state highway which serves Portland and some of its western suburbs.
Route description
OR 10 begins as Naito Parkway in Downtown Portland starting where Naito Parkway interchanges with U.S. Route 26. It heads sou ...
connects Hillsdale to
Downtown Portland
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to the north and to
Raleigh Hills and
Beaverton to the west.
Hillsdale is the center of Portland's Jewish community.
Education
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School
*
Robert Gray Middle School
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Mary Rieke Elementary School
References
External links
Hillsdale Street Tree Inventory Report
Jews and Judaism in Portland, Oregon
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon
Orthodox Jewish communities
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