Rice-Gates House

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Front of the building (2008)

The Rice-Gates House is a historic private residence on Southeast Walnut Street in downtown Hillsboro , Oregon , United States . The building in the Second Empire , completed in 1890, is two-story and has a mansard roof . The wooden house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1980 .

history

Attorney William J. Rice had a new two-story house built in 1890, which was then south of central Hillsboro. He sold it in 1903 to Harry V. Gates , a former MP in the Parliament of Oregon. Gates in turn sold it to his son Oliver B. Gates in 1911, but continued to live in the house. Both lived in it until 1927.

Details

View of the north and east facade of the house (2008)

The house is built in the style of the Second Empire and the mansard roof is covered with diamond-shaped shingles . This is set off from the facade by an embedded cornice , decorative gables adorn the front of the dormer windows , the eaves are provided with cantilevers in pairs. The windows of the house are closed at the top with an arch, and a cornice is above each window. The designers of the L-shaped house used the balloon framing style for the two-story structure , with the lumber being long enough to reach from the base to the roof of the house instead of just to the floor of the next floor.

The side cladding of the building consists of horizontal wooden boards that are painted yellow, with color accents in burgundy red and aquamarine blue. Other features of the external design are posts with brackets and fretwork . Three verandas run around the house, each of which is covered with a mansard roof that matches the main roof. One of these verandas is designed as a winter garden and is enclosed with windows, the other two have open arcades that support the roof. The posts are decorated with detailed scrolls in the upper area. In some areas of the house the windows are set in pairs. and the main entrance is under a curved fighter window with a cornice over it.

The basement is made of bricks that are laid in a stretcher bond , with a large part of the basement lying above the ground. The horizontal boards with which the facade on the ground floor is clad extends to the upper floor, the rest is covered by the steeply rising mansard roof. The building has two internal brick chimneys on which capital consoles sit. The windows are simple pull-out windows that are opened from below. The doors and windows are designed in a similar way to the porch posts.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Site Information: Rice-Gates House ( English ) In: Oregon Historic Sites Database . Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved May 6, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Hillsboro Historical Society: Rice-Gates House ( English ) Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b c Rice-Gates House ( English , PDF) In: Oregon Historic Site Form, Hillsboro Local Inventory Update 2008 . 2008. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 6, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kimfitzgerald.net

literature

  • James B. Norman: Portland's Architectural Heritage: National Register Properties of the Portland Metropolitan Area ( English ). Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, Oregon 1991.

Coordinates: 45 ° 31 '2 "  N , 122 ° 59' 9"  W.