Reed–Wells House

Portland, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Built in 1905, the Reed–Wells House is a Queen Anne vernacular residence in Portland, Oregon designed by architect Otto Kleemann. The home is a well-preserved example of Sullivan's Gulch's early-twentieth-century development as a middle-class neighborhood of single-family residences, modeled on the nearby success of Irvington and governed by restrictive deed covenants. The house gained historical significance partly as a rare residential work by Kleemann, and it was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, when the neighborhood's original character had been increasingly altered by commercial and multi-family construction beginning in the 1960s.