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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:1080 SW 197th Ave historic name:Aloha Farmhouse
Beaverton, Washington County current/other names:
assoc addresses:
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):1.0 total elig resources:1 total inelig resources:1
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:c.1915 second date:1944 date indiv listed:09/30/2014
primary orig use: Single Dwelling orig use comments:
second orig use:
primary style: Vernacular prim style comments:
secondary style: Craftsman sec style comments:
primary siding: Horizontal Board siding comments:
secondary siding: Shake
plan type: Bungalow architect:Pietro Belluschi (remodel)
builder:
comments/notes:
Vernacular residence remodeled by Pietro Belluschi for his own use in 1944 and 1946. DJP
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Not associated with any surveys or groupings.
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 09/30/2014
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date:
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 1,516 square foot residence at 1080 SW 197th Avenue in Aloha, Oregon, referred to hereinafter as the Aloha Farmhouse, is a one-story residence with a partial, unfinished basement connected to an outbuilding with a covered patio, referred to historically as a loggia. Collectively, the three spaces form an irregular footprint, with a moderately sloped gable roof with the ridgeline oriented east-west. The wood-frame house is clad in narrow beveled siding, while the outbuilding is clad in wide, shiplap siding. The roof is finished in wood shingles and the foundation is concrete. It is a ca 1915 Craftsman-style residence that was renovated in 1944 and again ca 1946 with added elements that are consistent with Pietro Belluschi’s design vocabulary for his Northwest Regional style residences. The outbuilding that is attached to the residence was originally a two-room storage building, used as a fruit room and wood shed; it is still used for these purposes, but was connected to the house with a gable roof with exposed framing in 1944. The barn was moved to the property from a nearby acreage about 1980 and was remodeled at that time for a studio/office in the upper portion. An attached carport with a shed roof was added later (n.d.). The residence has excellent integrity to its Period of Significance, 1944 to 1948, the years that it was owned and renovated by master architect Pietro Belluschi, as a home for his family.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The Aloha Farmhouse is eligible for listing in the National Register under Criterion B, in the area of Architecture, for its association with architect Pietro Belluschi, Oregon’s most renowned 20th century architect. The residence is one of three that Belluschi designed or remodeled for his family’s own use, and the only extant residence that retains integrity. The house is closely associated with the most productive period in this first phase of Belluschi’s long career, in which he established a reputation that ultimately led to his appointment as Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his later career as a consulting architect on some of the most high-profile projects in the country. It is significant at the local level.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
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Bibliography:
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