One of two houses slated for demolition on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard will be saved after the Portland City Council approved a plan to move it to another lot.

Jeffrey McCaffrey and Beth Bonness will move the Craftsman-style Montgomery House to a lot they own on Southeast Madison Street between 25th and 26th avenues, according to the ordinance passed by the council Wednesday.

They plan to remodel the 107-year-old house as part of a six-unit residential development on their lot, which is just west of the site where the house now sits, at 2625 S.E. Hawthorne.

Moving the Montgomery House and the proposed demolition of a similar house next door would make way for an apartment building proposed for those properties.

Developers want to construct a four-story building that would include 77 apartments, commercial space on the ground floor and basement parking.

Before the developers purchased the properties on Hawthorne, the two former houses had provided office space for 21 tenants who offered massage, psychotherapy and career counseling.

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