Alpenrose Dairy

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Alpenrose Dairy is a dairy and home delivery company located in the Hayhurst neighborhood of southwest Portland, Oregon, since 1916. It was owned by the Cadonau family for several generations until being sold to Smith Brothers Farms, a family-owned dairy located in Kent, Washington, in August 2019. [1]

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The brand was named after the alpine rose ( Rosa pendulina ) by the Swiss-born wife and early co-owner of the dairy. Alpenrose is a "supplier of dairy products to retail, wholesale and ingredient customers in Portland and throughout the Northwest". [2] In 2020, addressing the growing demand for delivery services the company introduced Alpenrose Home Delivery, a weekly grocery delivery service that provides customers with Alpenrose brand dairy products and other locally-made grocery items. [3] Deliveries are facilitated by the company's fleet of milkmen and milkwomen, who deliver groceries by neighborhood and are unique to the service. [4]

The 52 acres (21 ha) grounds of the dairy include:

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Alpenrose Velodrome

Products from Alpenrose include milk, ice cream, eggs, and various cultured dairy products.

Dairyville

Dairyville was added to Alpenrose sometime in the 1960s. As stated above, the replica frontier town consists of a few streets of false front stores, a doll museum, an ice cream parlor, a music shop and a 600-seat opera house. The theater's pipe organ was salvaged from the Portland Civic Auditorium. Dairyville is typically open to the public on holidays and during the summer months. [5]

For decades, Dairyville has hosted an annual holiday event called "Christmas in Dairyville". In addition to a gift shop and a house where children can have their photos taken with Santa Claus, there's also "Storybook Lane", an elaborate, walk-through attraction. Visitors wander through a snowy, moonlit mock-village inhabited by farm animals and displays based on Mother Goose's fables. [6] The attraction also includes a tiny fire station for kids to play in. Elsewhere on the property, choir groups from local schools perform. Dairyville's opera house also hosts nightly screenings of comedy shorts featuring The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy, along with more contemporary entertainment like the 2004 film adaptation of The Polar Express . The event ended its annual run in 2005 but returned again for the 2011 Christmas season. [7]

Dairyville's assets were auctioned off in 2020 and several of the items remain in the public view. Some of the iconic red/gold carriages pulled by miniature horses in parades were bought and restored by Nob Hill Christmas Historical Society and now walk in the annual Starlight Parade, in addition several rows of seats from the Theater and reels of film from the Theater are publicly made available in Christmas time at the Nob Hill storage facility to enjoy a short from Shirley Temple or 3 Stooges . The Calliope that clown Rusty Nails would walk with in the Parade was bought by the son of the wagons original builder. Later in 2021 it was sold to a local collector to be preserved and displayed locally. The houses from Storybook Lane were bought by 2 parties, one private collector in Sandy Oregon as well as the Nob Hill Christmas Historical Society.

Lawsuit

On March 4, 2019, a lawsuit was filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court by three members of the Cadonau family against two other family members, alleging they are planning to sell the dairy and immediately stop all community events at Alpenrose. [8] The family has since settled differences and dropped the lawsuit. In February 2021 the property was closed to events and all other uses. [9]

Future Development

Lennar Northwest, Inc, represented by Westlake Consultants, Inc. submitted [10] a "preapplication concept" for developing the Alpenrose property. The application "proposes a 193-lot single-family detached residential land division".

The proposal includes:

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References

  1. ↑ "Farm based in Kent, Wash. acquires Alpenrose Dairy in Portland". KATU. 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  2. ↑ "Alpenrose". www.alpenrose.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  3. ↑ "Alpenrose Dairy revives old-school home delivery". KOIN.com. 2020-09-07. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  4. ↑ Reaume, Genevieve (2020-12-04). "The return of the milkman: Alpenrose brings back delivery during pandemic". KATU. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  5. ↑ "Alpenrose History". Alpenrose Dairy. 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-06-18. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  6. ↑ Culverwell, Wendy (November 11, 2011). "Alpenrose Revives Popular Storybook Lane". Portland Business Journal . Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Welcome to Christmas in Dairyville". Alpenrose Dairy. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-12-07. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  8. ↑ Plaven, George (March 19, 2019). "Alpenrose's future uncertain, could impact dairy industry". Capital Press . Salem, Oregon. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  9. ↑ Yohannes, Aron (February 23, 2021). "Alpenrose permanently closes its Velodrome, an institution for Portland's cycling community". The Oregonian . Portland, Oregon. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  10. ↑ "CITY OF PORTLAND REQUEST PUBLIC RECORDS". portlandor.govqa.us. Retrieved 2022-01-02.

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