Late afternoon on the last day of 2014, I impulsively grabbed my camera and drove to 2320 Colfax to visit the Orth house, just outside the northwest corner of the North Wedge Neighborhood, for the ...

The Orth House is described as “a shabby rooming house with asbestos siding.” In 1991, asbestos or not, another fire occurred, and this will be important later. In 1992, Donald and Ramona Ziegler sold ...

First off, I have to give major credit to my council member Blong Yang over the Orth House. This isn’t because of his vote, although he was one of two to vote against its demolition. It’s because ...