Late author Ursula K. Le Guin's home to become a writers' residency

Author Ursula K. Le Guin poses for a photo at home in Portland on Sept 9, 2001. Le Guin’s family has donated their three-story house to the Portland, Oregon-based community nonprofit for what will become the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, died Jan. 22, 2018, at 88. — Photo: AP/Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian

Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels.

Or at least how it seemed from the outside.