Charles Shorey House

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Front view of the building (2008).

The Charles Shorey House is a two-story wooden house on Main Street in central Hillsboro , Oregon . The house was built by Charles Shorey and completed around 1908 in Queen Anne style . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 1989 .

history

Charles Shorey was born in Waterville , Maine in 1850 and moved to Washington County in 1878 . Around 1908 he bought from Wesley Boscow 1.7 acre ground on Main Street in Hillsboro at the price of 857 US dollars . Shorey used the former part of Boscow's dairy farm to build a house for himself and his family. Upon completion, the family - his wife Sarah and daughter Eliza Jane - moved here from their home in Mountaindale, Oregon on Dairy Creek.

Charles, who was a carpenter by trade, died in 1934 and his wife followed four years later.The house remained family-owned until the daughter's death in the 1950s. She preserved the building in its original state and the subsequent owners renovated it in 1987. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an example of a middle-class home in Hillsboro from the early 20th century.

building

The house is a cross-shaped structure, the roof of which is a mixture of a hipped roof and a gable roof . While it is primarily a Queen Anne structure, it also has Colonial Revival features . The exterior of the house consists of horizontally mounted boards casings, fish scale shingles and a wraparound terrace and some other decorative elements, such as sawed projections and turned wooden post.

Most of the exterior is still as the house was originally built, including the leaded glass windows . The interior of the house is also largely in its original condition, including the stairwell with the turned railings. Fir wood - paneling are present throughout most of the house; the interior of the building is in the style of the Arts and Crafts Movement .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Oregon National Register List ( English , PDF; 346 kB) State of Oregon. Retrieved November 4, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Campillo, Linda. “Historical listing sought for Charles Shorey House in Hillsboro”, The Oregonian , February 16, 1989, West Zoner, p. 3.
  3. ↑ a b Mandel, Michelle. “Take a peek at Oregon's past in two open historic houses,” The Oregonian , Jul 10, 1997, West Zoner, p. 1.
  4. ^ A b Oregon Historic Sites Database: Site Information: Shorey, Charles, House. Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation, accessed November 4, 2008.
  5. ↑ a b Shorey House.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hillsboro Historical Society. Retrieved November 21, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hillsborohistorical.org  

Coordinates: 45 ° 31 ′ 20 ″  N , 122 ° 58 ′ 31 ″  W.