The Fulton House - A Portland Bed and Breakfast - 1-503-892-5781

-The Fulton House, built in the late 19th century, originally served as a bordello floating in the Willamette River, one of the gambling houses and bordellos built in present-day Willamette Park. Around 1902, the house was placed on logs and dragged one block west up the hill to its present location, a lot owned by Joseph Weber, a local tanner who owned the entire block.
-One block east of the Fulton House is Macadam Avenue, today a major thoroughfare but once the first black-topped road out of downtown Portland; in the eastern U.S., roads are paved with “macadam” not with blacktop, hence the street name (many of Portland’s early residents came from the eastern part of the country). Macadam Avenue was built to give easy access to Portland businessmen and politicians to the bars, gambling houses and bordellos which lined the Willamette River in Willamette Park.
The magnificent Willamette Waterfront Greenway, nationally and rightfully renowned for its beauty, begins in Willamette Park and continues north almost to downtown Portland. Depending on season and the weather, you can play tennis, picnic in a covered area or watch boaters, skidoo enthusiasts, sailors and fishermen enjoying diverse river pleasures.
-Our “widow’s walk” also originated on the East Coast. Back in the days when many of the men folk in coastal towns fished or whaled for a living, an extremely dangerous profession, their wives went up to a flat, fenced area on the roof and gazed out to sea to watch and pray for their husbands’ ships to sail into their home ports. Unfortunately, many of their men had been lost at sea and never returned – thus “widow’s walk.”