has taken control of a 111-year-old mansion whose history traces the rise of a family prominent in the city's maritime and banking enterprises and the family's eventual decline. The last occupant ...

The Flavel House is a stately, Queen Anne-style, mansion that was the home of Captain George Flavel who grew fabulously wealthy guiding ships across the deadly Columbia River Bar. (Michael Lloyd/The ...

"At that moment, I saw my life flash before my eyes..." His eyes red from the blows and clouded by tears he held back, Flavel struggled to speak. With more silences than words, he insisted on bearing ...

Downtown property headed toward auction block againOne of the downtown Flavel properties goes on the auction block, again, in two weeks. The vacant commercial building on the southeast corner of Ninth ...

Harry Flavel, one of the most storied residents in the history of Astoria, has died. In keeping with the eccentricity of his life, and the reclusive nature of his latter years, The Daily Astorian has ...