Montavilla Park

Montavilla Community Center & Pool
8219 NE Glisan St Locate this site in PortlandMaps
503-823-4101

General Info:

Acquired in 1930

Amenities:

Includes basketball court – indoor, community center, gymnasium, kitchen – reservable, meeting room – reservable, party room – reservable and swimming pool – outdoor.

Montavilla Pool is open from mid-June through early-September.

Program Information:

Outdoor 25-yard shallow pool and 25-yard deep pool, heated to 84 degrees. Water depths range from 2 feet to 8 feet. Has a drop slide and a kiddie slide.

Historical Information:

This center was at its busy location long before all of the traffic. One of the original four community centers built by the city in the 1920s, at that time the building consisted of just the current gymnasium with an adjacent outdoor pool. The gym usually housed a variety of recreational activities, but during the summer months when the pool was in use, two floor-to-ceiling wood walls were put into place. These boards divided the gym into a boys' dressing room and a girls' dressing room, with a center walkway between them. Legend has it that boys would try to line up the knotholes in the wooden walls - never successfully.

In 1992, the first phase of renovations at Montavilla was completed. The aquatics facilities were relocated, which provided permanent preschool and gymnastics rooms. Previously, these rooms doubled as dressing rooms during the busy summer season. The rest of the improvements scheduled for Montavilla are to provide a craft shop and develop a multipurpose room. The mechanical and plumbing systems will also be improved, along with the pool and locker rooms.