Design Week Portland 2017

Emerson Street was in the Northeast Quadrant, a low income historically black neighborhood, an area with no other homes on the Design Week Portland 2017 Tour.

What could we do to entice folks to go out of their way to visit the Emerson Street House? We decided to go with...

What Is This Place?

Erica helped us produce a small blue book called What Is This Place?, which we would give to folks who ventured up to Emerson Street. We expected a small group, but they would be the adventurous types - "our people."

What Is This Place? Conversations Around the Emerson Street House. Diane Freaney. Emerson House Press. 2021.