Portland Monthly

How a Gossip-Haunted Mount Tabor House Became a Wholesome Family Abode

When Maggie and Greg bought their Mount Tabor home, their new neighbors whispered creepy rumors about it. A doctor who stashed his new wife’s kids next door, a possible affair with the nanny, a secret passageway—the gossip was rich. Add that juice to a pristine midcentury modern, with views for miles, and the result was a heady architectural cocktail.

Finding the house itself was a matter of happenstance. Initially, Maggie and Greg designed a new home a few blocks away, with architect Risa Boyer. After almost eight months, the house was ready for permitting, but a tricky site proved too expensive to build on. “It was crushing,” says Greg, a creative company owner who moved to Portland from New York with Maggie and daughter Sloan three years prior. “We’d really thought it was going to go through.”

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