This neighborhood is an "architecturally rich mix of compatible early 20th century styles", notable for their "continuity of scale, setback, orientation, and materials." Architectural styles represented include bungalow, craftsman, American Foursquare, Mission, Tudor, and Colonial Revival.
Three bridges connect Buckman to neighborhoods in Southwest Portland across the Willamette: the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood via the Burnside Bridge, and Downtown Portland via the Morrison and Hawthorne Bridges.
You can cross the Burnside Bridge on weekends into an open-air marketplace which features 250+ booths of handmade goods, artisanal cheeses, and local produce, sold by local Pacific Northwest artisans.
The neighborhood also includes Lone Fir Cemetery with its many unmarked graves (1855), Colonel Summers Park, where community events and picnics are aplenty (1921), Buckman Community Garden (1980), and much of the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade (opened 2001).
The popular Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade is a scenic bike & pedestrian path that follows the East shore of the Willamette River offers some of the city's best views
Two retail districts lie partially within Buckman: the Belmont District and the Hawthorne District.
Visit one of the first Stumptown Coffee locations on 34th and Belmont, Grab breakfast at Utopia Cafe, or guiltlessly indulge in a juicy grass fed burger on a gluten free bun with a vegan coconut chocolate shake at Dick's Kitchen.
Read a book or meet friends at a Portland original coffeehouse in a “painted lady” Victorian where you can sip a brew by oil lamplight indoors, or beneath the sun in the garden.
If you want to do further Ghost sleuthing Visit Moonshadow, One of PDX's best hidden witchy stores, to find one of a kind hand made jewelry pieces, healing stones, incense, and literature to please any Mystics heart.