Poke around a 1923 Craftsman house in Southeast Portland’s Hawthorne District and you’ll see something unusual: A hobbit hole hidden among ... The 100-foot, circling root sculpture on the ...

To build the root cellar, he needed a backhoe to dig a hole in the earth. He then built an 8-by-8-foot room with cinder blocks, leaving the earth floor bare and two ventilation holes to allow air ...