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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:840 S Water St historic name:DeGuire-Ludowitzki House
Silverton, Marion County current/other names:Ludowitzki, John & Mary, House
assoc addresses:
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):2.5 total elig resources:1 total inelig resources:1
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:c.1907 second date: date indiv listed:03/03/2015
primary orig use: Single Dwelling orig use comments:
second orig use:
primary style: Late 19th/20th Period Revivals: Other prim style comments:
secondary style: Colonial Revival sec style comments:
primary siding: Horizontal Board siding comments:
secondary siding:
plan type: architect:Unknown
builder:Unknown
comments/notes:
non-contributing garage
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Survey/Grouping Included In: Type of Grouping Date Listed Date Compiled
   Historic Architecture in Silverton, Oregon and its Environs MPD MPS 03/12/2011 2010
   Silverton 2010 MPD Selective RLS MPS 2010
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 03/03/2015
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date: 03/02/2010
106 Project(s): None
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 ca. 1907 DeGuire-Ludowitzki House is located at 840 South Water Street in south Silverton, Marion County, Oregon on a corner lot in Johnson’s Addition at the intersection of South Water and Central Streets. The house is oriented northeast, and is sited in the center of the lot. Pedestrian access is from South Water Street, and vehicular access is from Center Street. The DeGuire-Ludowitzki House is a wood-frame two-story building clad in weather board and set on a stone foundation. Designed as a moderately expressed Colonial Revival-style home in the foursquare form, the property exhibits many of the character-defining features of its style and type. Key details include a medium-pitched pyramidal roof decorated with a simple frieze and cornice. The main full-width wrap-around front porch is covered with a hipped roof supported by a Tuscan-style colonnade, typical of the Colonial Revival style. A non-contributing two-car garage faces Central Street. The interior includes 1,700 square feet of living space, and is organized in a side hall foursquare-type plan. The first floor includes an entry hall and stair, parlor, living room, dining room, kitchen, and den with a half bathroom. The second floor is laid out in quadrants with three bedrooms and one bathroom in each corner, centered around the landing. The house has undergone some alterations since its construction, especially in the 1950s. Despite the changes, the building retains its character-defining features and continues to convey its significant historical characteristics and associations.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The DeGuire-Ludowitzki House, built ca. 1907 and located in Silverton, Marion County, Oregon, is significant at the local level under Criterion C in the area of Architecture as an example of a moderately expressed, Colonial Revival residence in the foursquare form. The DeGuire-Ludowitzki House retains good integrity and meets the general and specific registration requirements set forth in the Historic Architecture of Silverton, Oregon and its Environs Multiple Property Document (MPD). As required for listing under the MPD, the building retains its key character-defining features of its style and expression, including retention of original materials, fenestration pattern, workmanship, and design. The Colonial Revival style is clearly demonstrated in this two-story wood-frame house in its rectangular form, the classical entablatures on the wrap-around corner front porch, the Tuscan-style colonnade, the symmetry of the door and window arrangements of each façade, as well as the door and window treatments (Photo 3). The interior layout of the floor plan retains the characteristics of the foursquare with side hall plan, with the stair on one side and three main rooms on the opposite side of the first floor, with bedrooms on the second story situated within each corner of the building (Figures 5 and 6). The finishes inside are simple with classical window and door details, picture rails, baseboards, and five-cross panel wood doors with the original hardware in every room. The building retains its integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. Despite a few changes, all described as acceptable changes in the MPD, this building is among the best examples of a moderately expressed Colonial Revival style home in a foursquare form in the city of Silverton, Oregon.
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
Local Library: University Library:University of Oregon
Historical Society:Silverton Historical Soc, OR Historical Soc Other Respository:
Bibliography:
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