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, and
Richmond
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to the north,
Foster-Powell and
Mt. Scott-Arleta to the east, and
Reed
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and
Woodstock
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to the south.
Parks include
Creston Park (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
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's 1821 novel ''
Kenilworth
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'', 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
*
Guide to Creston-Kenilworth Neighborhood(PortlandNeighborhood.com)
Creston-Kenilworth Street Tree Inventory Report
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon
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