[Hist_Pres] The Walker Naylor Historic District in Forest Grove and Three Houses in Silverton Listed in the National Register

[Ian Johnson]

Oregon Preservation Partners:
 
The Oregon SHPO is pleased to announce the recent listing of the Walker
Naylor Historic District in Forest Grove and the recognition of the
Drake, DeGuire, and Adams Houses in Silverton, listed under the Multiple
Property Document Silverton, Oregon, and Its Environs.
 

Located north of downtown Forest Grove, the residential Walker Naylor
Historic District illustrates the impact of important events, trends,
and institutions that affected the development of the town from the
construction of the first house in 1858 through 1959. The area was
initially settled by the town’s professionals and businessmen who
constructed Victorian homes on large semi-rural lots. By the
early-twentieth century a regional boom fueled by demand for
agricultural and forest products resulted in a burgeoning downtown and
increasing enrollments at Pacific University. During this time lots in
Walker Naylor were subdivided to meet growing demand for housing and
buildings in the Bungalow and Period Revival Cottage styles were
constructed. After WWII, lots continued to be divided over the next
several decades as homes were constructed in the Ranch and WWII Period
Cottage styles among others. By 1959 the neighborhood had been largely
built out and few residences were constructed after this period.
 
The 1906 Murton E. and Lillian DeGuire House is recognized for its
architectural merit as a Free-Classic Queen Anne, a style that
incorporates an eclectic mix of Queen Anne and Classical Revival Design
elements, which was popular in the late-ninetieth and early-twentieth
centuries.  While modest in its ornamentation, style is clearly
demonstrated through the application of Queen-Anne elements such as the
use of varied siding textures, leaded glass, canted corners, projecting
bays, and groupings of tall and narrow windows, among other details. The
building’s block form and centered wall dormers and gables create the
regular symmetry associated with the Colonial Revival Style, which is
reinforced by the pediment at each gable and the wide frieze bands
separating the first- and second-floor, as well as lining the eaves and
gables. 
 


Constructed in 1904, the June D. Drake House is recognized for Drake’s
substantial accomplishments and service to the Silverton community and
as a local example of a modest Free-Classic Queen Anne cottage. Drake
was a regional award-winning photographer, the leading Silverton
historian, organizer and first president of the Silverton Historical
Society and Silverton Museum, and the driving force behind the
establishment of Silver Falls State Park for more than 20 years,
portions of the purchase of which he funded himself despite financial
hardship. He was recognized for his effort by having one of the
waterfalls in the park named for him, and recognized by the State of
Oregon for his work as a historian with an award from the Oregon
Historical Society and a seat on the board of the Oregon Centennial
Commission. Throughout his life, Drake sought to promote the welfare of
his community through the preservation of its natural beauty and
cultural artifacts, resulting in the permanent establishment of local
institutions and a popular state park which still define and shape
Silverton today.
 
Constructed in 1912 for prominent lawyer, businessman, and politician
Louis J. Adams, the Adams House is recognized as an outstanding example
of a Craftsman Style, which is clearly demonstrated through the
building’s low-slope roof, wrap-around porch, and the heavy, rustic
stylistic cues embodied in the stucco finish, decorative bargeboards,
knee bracing, window trim, and substantial porch posts, among other
decorative elements. The period interior makes extensive use of dark fir
detailing, especially in the coffered ceilings, classically-derived fir
columns at the interior of the main entry and heavy molded door and
window trim, including wainscoting, baseboards, picture rails, pocket
doors, and built-in cabinetry.
 
More information about the National Register and recent Oregon listings
is online at www.oregonheritage.org ( http://www.oregonheritage.org/ )
(click on “National Register” at left of page). 
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Ian P. Johnson, Historian
Oregon SHPO
725 Summer Street NE, Suite C
Salem, Oregon  97301
Ph: (503) 986-0678
Fax: (503) 986-0793
 
Visit our website: 
www.oregonheritage.org ( http://www.oregonheritage.org/ )
 ( http://www.oregonheritage.org/ ) 
Comments or suggestions:
Heritage.Programs at state.or.us (
mailto:Email.Heritage-Programs at state.or.us )
 
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