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NR Nomination

LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:4825 NE Starr Blvd historic name:Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead
Hillsboro, Washington County current/other names:T W Shute; Shute, John W & Lizzie, House & Barn
assoc addresses:4825 NW 253rd Ave, 4825 NE 41st Avenue, 4825 NW Starr Blvd
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:1N 2W 21
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):2.0 total elig resources:3 total inelig resources:0
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:c.1890 second date:1909 date indiv listed:07/06/2018
primary orig use: Single Dwelling orig use comments:
second orig use: Single Dwelling
primary style: Queen Anne prim style comments:
secondary style: sec style comments:
primary siding: Horizontal Board siding comments:
secondary siding: Shingle
plan type: architect:
builder:John W. and Elizabeth Shute (house), William and Anne Meierjurgen (east wing, barn, and garage)
comments/notes:
Owner did not submit HRR - planning on going straight to NR nomination. DJP
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Not associated with any surveys or groupings.
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 07/06/2018
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date:
106 Project(s)
SHPO Case Date Agency Effect Eval
13-0465 02/14/2014 no adverse effect
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
ARCHITECTURAL / PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
The 1890 Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead is located at 4825 NE Starr Blvd in the heart of the original Edward and Brazilla Constable “Five Oaks” donation land claim (DLC), approximately 3.3 miles northeast of downtown Hillsboro, 0.5 mile north of the Hillsboro Airport, and immediately outside of the current city limits of the City of Hillsboro. The resource boundary is the entirety of the present 3.34 acre tax lot currently associated with the property, comprising the two-story wood-frame cross-gabled 1890 Queen Anne-vernacular style house, the two-story, gable-roof 1910 livestock and hay barn, and the one-story, gable-roof 1919 garage, which are all contributing resources that retain good to excellent integrity. The house is characterized through the applied Queen Anne stylistic language to the Western Farmhouse form. Those defining elements include the western farmhouse footprint, organization, and orientation and typical Queen Anne detailing, such as the full two stories, double-drop weatherboard siding, shingle siding within the gable ends, and the prominent full-width double porch supported by full columns and turned posts on the second floor rail. The property is well-defined as a historic farm compound of its period and is situated on a slight rise and surrounded by fertile Tuality Plains farmland. An Oregon white oak, at least 300 years old, towers over the west side of the house (Photo 1). Alterations to the Shute-Meierjurgen House include a two-story 1910 north wing addition within the period of significance and a one-story, hipped-roof 1976 addition on the northwest façade outside of the period of significance (Figure 14). Despite the 1976 addition, the house remains an easily identifiable representative of its historic form and style, and the eligibility and high degree of integrity of this resource is manifested in the quality of construction, materials, the property, and setting.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead is locally significant under Criterion C in the area of Architecture as an excellent and increasingly rare example of a late 19th-early 20th century farmstead within the immediate vicinity of the City of Hillsboro (within the current Urban Growth Boundary ) which has maintained good integrity of setting, location, design, association, materials, workmanship and feeling. Due to a 1976 addition to the rear, the house has fair integrity of design. The house, reflecting the typical cross-wing form of the late-nineteenth century farmhouse combined with Classical and Queen Anne stylistic ornamentation popular at the time, indicates the somewhat elevated economic status of the Shutes, mostly due to the diversified income developed by Shute. The barn is a largely intact, fine example of an early twentieth century hay and livestock barn, and the garage is an almost completely intact, purpose-built pre-1920 automobile storage building. Together, the farm buildings well represent the last identified collection of primary farm buildings of a late-nineteenth and early twentieth century farmstead within the UGB around Hillsboro, and is increasingly rare in the larger vicinity around the city. The period of significance is 1890-1919, beginning with the year of construction of the original portion of the house and ending with the construction of the garage, the last building of the farmstead.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
Title Records Census Records Property Tax Records Local Histories
Sanborn Maps Biographical Sources SHPO Files Interviews
Obituaries Newspapers State Archives Historic Photographs
City Directories Building Permits State Library
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Bibliography:
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