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address:1322 SE 282nd Ave historic name:Hamlin, Charles, Hunter, House
Gresham, Multnomah County current/other names:Hamlin-Johnson House
assoc addresses:
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location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:
resource type:building height (stories):1.5 total elig resources: total inelig resources:
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:c.1888 second date:c.1940 date indiv listed:06/07/2016
primary orig use: Single Dwelling orig use comments:
second orig use:
primary style: Gothic Revival prim style comments:
secondary style: Victorian Era: Other sec style comments:
primary siding: Horizontal Board siding comments:
secondary siding:
plan type: architect:Charles Hunter Hamlin
builder:
comments/notes:
HRR response completed 5-5-2015 with a preliminary response of eligible. DJP
Not associated with any surveys or groupings.
NR date listed: 06/07/2016
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date:
Gen file date: 05/07/2015
106 Project(s): None
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
The Hamlin-Johnson House is a one-and-one-half-story building with a cross-gable roof with narrow eaves and a largely rectangular footprint (a hipped-roof utility room has been added at the northeast corner). The house is centrally located within the main portion of its 1.95-acre parcel and faces west overlooking 282nd Avenue, a suburban arterial. The wood-frame building is clad in drop siding with a wide reveal (channel rustic siding) with some shingle siding under the south-facing gable. The foundation is post-and-pier and the roof is clad in asphalt shingles. It is a ca. 1888 Gothic Revival house that was remodeled ca. 1903, adding Queen Anne features and details. The most dominant feature of the house is the symmetry of the front façade, with its narrow, front-facing gable on the structure’s side gable roof, and the full-width front porch with its turned balustrade and decorative spindle frieze and brackets. A Victorian-era door is centrally located under the front-facing gable, on the back wall of the front porch. Windows are primarily one-over-one-light, wood-frame, double-hung windows with simple surrounds and crown molding, placed individually and in pairs throughout the building. Additional character-defining features include two corbelled chimneys mounted on the east-west ridge of the house and a recessed porch within the single-story ell on the north side. The interior layout of the house includes a full-width living room across the front of the house, with a stairway to the second floor located on the back wall, followed by a formal dining room and a kitchen at the rear of the house. Three bedrooms, a bathroom, and auxiliary storage are located on the second floor. All interior detailing, including window and door surrounds and baseboards, is original. Major changes to the house include the addition of a bay window and later, a sun room, on the south side, the utility room, and the previously mentioned Queen Anne styling. The parcel also includes two non-contributing resources: a twentieth-century barn or workshop and a small 1984 playhouse that repeats the materials of the house. Also present on the parcel are numerous mature trees, including remnants of a pear orchard.
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The 1888 Hamlin-Johnson House is significant under Criterion C as an excellent and rare example of a rural residential type in Gresham, a vernacular structure that displays elements of the Gothic Revival style of the mid-nineteenth century. It was remodeled in the first decade of the twentieth century, adding Queen Anne features and details, which place it among three known examples in Gresham of this trend to update earlier, simpler houses in this very popular style. It is the only known modestly scaled and modestly detailed expression of this phenomenon in the city. The house is associated with its attributed builder, Charles Hunter Hamlin, a steamboat engineer who was on the first boat that traveled above Willamette Falls via the Willamette Falls Locks, in 1873. It is also associated with the Rev. Jonas Johnson and his family, who owned the house for six decades. The Johnsons’ association represents the building’s affiliation with Powell Valley’s Swedish history and heritage. The house is significant at the local level.
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Historical Society: Other Respository:OR Historical Society, Gresham Historical Society
Bibliography:
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