Built in 1905, this home served as the Congregational Church parsonage until 1964 when the house was sold. The style is Dutch Colonial Revival with a side gabled roof, two unusual dormers on the front are connected by a curved center balcony. This house is located on 18th Avenue
A photograph of the Queen Anne style house at 1504 Elm Street in Forest Grove, OR, showing it as it appeared sometime between the 1960s-1980s.
The house was built in 1893 by Charles Keep, a local landowner. According to the Friends of Historic Forest Grove, this house was likely built by Keep as a symbol for the new "South Park" district, which had been just been added to the town in 1891. Keep did not live in this house; he resided nearby to the southwest. This house was sold soon after construction to Frank Davey, who sold it in 1894 to the local banker, E. W. Haines, who lived there for less than two years. Numerous other early residents stayed for short periods of time including Lavina Watt, the Agnete Staehr family, and others.
This house is locally known as the "Barnes House," the "Marble House," or the "South Park House." The reason for its association with the famous bow-maker Frank Barnes is unknown, however. Barnes lived in a home on what is now 19th Avenue, and he does not appear in any city directories, censuses or in the line of title connected with this house. The name "Marble House" was bestowed by the Marble Family, who owned it from 1965-1999. The house is now called the "South Park House," after its location in the South Park Addition.
This house, facing Elm Street, is somewhat narrow in the front but with a large gable on the left facing the front and a third story tower on the right it looks large. There is a roofed window bay on the first floor below the gable. The porch starts at the end of the gable and looks to go around to the right side of the house. The porch has its own roof. This view is from the southeast corner of the house. The sidewalk is concrete and the street is paved with a curb.
Two older gentlemen standing outside posing for the photographer. On the left is R.J. Schwanke and on the right is Henry Harms. Both men are wearing suits and ties.
Black and white image of a wooden church. A cross-gabled building faces a muddy street behind a boardwalk. The front entrance is located in a square bell tower that sits next to the front section in the corner between the two sections. Double-hung windows in pairs are set beneath arched transom windows. The bell tower is open, with a hipped roof and a railing around it. Power lines run from the building out of the picture, and power poles are visible in the background. Set immediately against the church to the right of the image is a white gabled house with a single dormer window, set above a small covered porch. A wooden fence runs to the left of the image from the edge of the church. More houses of various sizes and kinds are visible in the background, including one square roofed building to the left of the church. Bare branches are visible on some trees and bushes.
Black and white photo of a church building set off a road and in behind brush with several oak trees to the right front. The building is gabled, with an enclosed porch having an arched entrance. The bell tower is centered in the front and protrudes slightly. The belfry has louvered windows and an elongated pyramidal roof with a cross on top. The rest of the building is obscured by brush. The road in front of the church is paved, and there is a white building just visible behind the oak trees in the right of the image.
Photograph of a white church in the Carpenter Gothic Style. A graveyard with a number of stone monuments dominates the foreground of the image. Only one side of the church is visible; it features a steep roof sloping down to white walls with three narrow windows with pointed arches between four narrow buttresses. The buttress at the front of the church extends from the building. An octagonal steeple extends up from the front of the building, with steep gables and narrow windows. The roof is cut off at the top of the image. At the rear of the main building is a smaller section, featuring the same steep roofline but shorter in height. Two double-hung paned windows with no ornamentation are visible. The church is bracketed by trees, both pine and deciduous; the latter trees are in full leaf. Visible headstones for the Mays and Meek families.
A photograph of a small, gabled weathered wood jail sitting in a grassy yard. The logs are not chinked, and gaps appear between them. There are no windows in the wall, and the door has a window covered by a piece of white material.
Black and white aerial photograph of Hillsboro, looking north-north-east. The County Courthouse is visible just to the upper left of the center of the image.
Black and white image of an obelisk grave marker. Marker is white stone and sits on a concrete plinth in a cemetery. Trees and bushes in full leaf are visible in the background, and the name of 'Col. Joseph L. Meek' is just visible on the bottom pediment of the marker.
Black and white photograph of a three-story, gabled house in an overgrown yard. House has a double porch that wraps around the two visible sides, with a railing around both upper and lower levels. The yard is overgrown and the trees are in full leaf. A swing is just visible on the far image left of the porch, and a bench sits beside the front door.
Black and white photograph of Visitation Church. A baseball diamond takes up the left side of the photograph, and two other buildings are in the foreground. Several large Sequoia trees dominate the background of the image. Between the houses and the trees the church roof and tower are just visible.
Black and white photograph of a cross gable church in a modified Carpenter Gothic style. The church is white and sits on a foundation with a bell tower nestled in the corner created by the two sections. The faade of each visible gable features a row of triangular arched windows topped by three diamond-shaped windows which frame the entire window feature into a triangular arch. The main entrance is set in the bell tower's front facade, reached by a series of concrete steps, and the tower features a shingled second story beneath an open belfry with railings and decorative roof supports. A bell can just be seen inside, and the belfry has a tall, square pyramidal roof with nothing on the top. Basement windows are visible in the image left side of the church, and a bush in full leaf partially obscures the front facade. Pine and deciduous trees fill the hill slope in the background, and the church sits in a partially visible grassy field. Power lines run along the very top of the image foreground, with one connecting visibly to the church, running down the front corner of the bell tower and into the wall just above the basement.
Black and white photograph of a hip-roofed home built in an L-shape. The eaves feature braces and covered porches reminiscent of the Queen Anne revival style architecture cover both the front entrance and the side leg of the house. This bushes surround the house, and three chimneys are visible.
Black and white photograph of Grove Furniture. The brick building has two stories, the lower one with double recessed doors set between large, plate glass windows. The upper floor features three sets of double-hung paned windows in protruding bays. A metal power pole stands across a paved street, and a pick-up truck is parked in front of the building.
Black and white photo of a two-story house behind leafy trees. House appears to be Colonial style. A two-door car is parked in the front, and a riding lawnmower is just visible in front of that.
Black and white photograph of a cross-gabled, two-story wooden house that appears to have been abandoned. The exterior is weathered, and porch supports in the back are knocked askew. Vegetation in the yard is overgrown. Cantilevered sections jut from the roof of one gable, forming a covered porch below. A wide, second-story balcony that appears to have covered a carriage porch at one time.
Black and white photograph of a man and woman examining vandalized graves in an overgrown cemetery. One headstone has been knocked over in this image. Note the woman's sweater and collar with the brooch.
Black and white image of gravestones knocked down and laying about on the ground in a cemetery. Several bases are visible, one with its tablet leaning on it, one missing its tablet entirely, and another with a broken off tablet.
Black and white photograph of train cars sitting on a side track. Visible is a caboose, several empty timber cars, and a number of other train cars. The fields nearby are brown, and a few trees are visible in the distance. The train switch is off .
Black and white image of a cemetery, with a number of graves in a row in the central area. Larger monuments dot the background, and a lone tree stands at the left of the image. The graves in the center are mostly flat gravestones with a few tablets set upright on bases. Empty fields stretch out beneath a cloudy sky in the image background.
Black and white image of broken trees and debris scattered across the lawn of the Washington County Courthouse. Fresh cut wood stacked to the bottom left of the picture indicates that cleanup is in progress. The Columbus Day Windstorm was an extra-tropical cyclone, essentially a rainless hurricane. The storm cut a swath of destruction through northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia on October 12, 1963, with the bulk of the damage occurring along the Oregon coast and in the Willamette Valley. The highest winds recorded in the Portland area reached 116 mph, but many local anemometers (wind gauges) were destroyed by the storm after reaching their measurement capacity. Damage estimates in current (2012) dollars were between $3 and $5 billion dollars, including 11 to 15 billion board feet of timber in the Coast Range.
Black and white image of a collapsed wooden frame building. Sheets of corrugated tin and wooden beams are collapsed over a concrete floor and a Volkswagen Beetle. with downed power lines visible behind the building's remains. The remains of Typhoon Freda, the Columbus Day Storm cut a swath of destruction through the Pacific Northwest, with the bulk of the damage occurring in Oregon's Willamette Valley and along the Oregon coast. Thousands of homes were 'severely damaged' in Oregon, according to a Red Cross survey after the storm, and almost 500,000 families were without power or telephone service, many of them for weeks as local utilities struggled to rebuild a power grid that had been virtually destroyed.
