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The 2026 Street of Dreams at 50
The Home Builders Association of Greater Portland has staged the Street of Dreams luxury home tour since 1976, and the 2026 edition marked the show's 50th anniversary. Here is what the milestone year meant for Oregon City, and where 14986 Jennetten Way fits in.
The Street of Dreams began in 1976 as a single street of custom-built show homes. Over five decades it became the Pacific Northwest's premier showcase of what local builders can do: architectural pedigrees, experimental floor plans, and the newest materials, all open to the public for a few weeks each summer.
For its 50th anniversary in 2026, the tour ran July 30 through August 23 and spread across the metro, the way recent editions have: seven custom luxury homes at Serres Farms in Oregon City, plus residences in West Linn, Lake Oswego, Portland, and Cannon Beach, for a total of about two dozen homes.
14986 Jennetten Way was built in that anniversary spirit. It carries the Street of Dreams DNA through its material palette, dark charcoal brick and warm timber siding, an open great room finished around a waterfall quartz island, and an outdoor room with stone tiers and the sky overhead. And because the show window has closed, the home now quietly moves from event house to private residence, offered at $949,900.
For buyers, a former tour home has real advantages: it has been pushed to the highest standard the builder and trades can meet, it has been inspected by thousands of curious eyes, and it offers some of the most thoroughly documented construction history in the region through the HBA.
"The Street of Dreams standard is simple: build the best house the craftspeople can build, then let the public judge it."
If you are weighing a private showing or want a second opinion on the financing side, the listing agent and the mortgage team at Olson Group are one call away.