The designers of the Edgewood Townehouses were an award-winning architecture firm known as Lutes and Amundson, Architects and Community Planners. Donald Lutes, a 1950 graduate from the University of Oregon, began his practice in Springfield, Oregon. His business partner, John M. Amundson Jr., another graduate from the UO School of Architecture was also a professor of Architecture and Planning at the UO. These two architects became the first practice to combine architecture and urban planning in Oregon.

Their vision was to build single-family residences, fully utilizing the lot-size on which they were built – not apartments, not duplexes – but a townhouse. In addition to this goal, the envisioned the townhouses set in a private park reserved for the exclusive use and enjoyment of the association members and their guests. The private park included a swimming pool, a neighborhood recreation building, private driveways, streets, and walkways, with natural streams, and waterfalls. The two architects teamed with one of the premiere construction companies of the time, Breeden Bros., and the award-winning landscape architects, Lloyd Bond and Associates, to create Edgewood Townehouses.

So, we live in privately owned townhouses in a private park that we collectively maintain and manage through our membership in the Edgewood Townehouse Association. Homeowners here own their own townhouses, the land underneath them, and, through voting rights, share joint ownership of the private park and all of the facilities. Owners are entitled to be creative inside of your townhouse and patio area, but the exterior of the buildings, the driveways, streets and the grounds belong to us all and are maintained to retain and preserve the natural character and design of the original plan.