Details emerged from searching a home that In 1939, a home in Portland, Oregon was once a 'house of soiled doves' - a brothel. However, after much research, no details have emerged. One night a story started emerging on the page and after three months the final chapter was written. If it is true the house on the corner of NW Thompson and Rodney was a house of soiled doves, and if it were true that a prominate person died in the house while having sex - then where's the story. Thus, the story.