Creston-Kenilworth is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of
Portland, Oregon
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, lying between SE 26th Ave. on the west and SE Foster Rd. (to SE 61st Ave.) on the east, and between SE Powell Blvd. on the north and SE Holgate Blvd. on the south. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of
Brooklyn
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to the west,
Hosford-Abernethy
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) Downto ...
, and
Richmond
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to the north,
Foster-Powell and
Mt. Scott-Arleta to the east, and
Reed and
Woodstock
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to the south.
Parks include
Creston Park
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(1920) and
Kenilworth Park (1909).
According to
Portland Parks & Recreation
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, the Kenilworth neighborhood was
plat
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ted in 1889 and is "named after Sir
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'', ''Rob Roy (n ...
's 1821 novel ''
Kenilworth
Kenilworth ( ) is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Warwick (district), Warwick District in Warwickshire, England, south-west of Coventry, north of Warwick and north-west of London. It lies on Finham Brook, a ...
'', a romantic novel set in
Elizabethan
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England
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. Many of the streets in the neighborhood took their names from this novel and other novels by Scott."
References
External links
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Guide to Creston-Kenilworth Neighborhood(PortlandNeighborhood.com)
Creston-Kenilworth Street Tree Inventory Report
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon
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