Charles Shorey House

The Charles Shorey House is a two-story wooden house on Main Street in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon. The house was built by Charles Shorey and completed in 1908 in the Queen Anne style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 1989.

History

Charles Shorey was born 1850 in Waterville, Maine in 1878 and came to Washington County. Around 1908 he bought from Wesley Boscow approximately 1.7 acre ground on Main Street in Hillsboro for the price of 857 U.S. dollars. Shorey used the earlier part of terrain Boscows dairy farm to build a house for himself and his family. His wife Sarah and daughter Eliza Jane - - Upon completion, the family moved from their homestead in Mountaindale, Oregon on Dairy Creek forth here.

Charles, who was a carpenter by trade, died in 1934 and his wife followed four years later, the house remained until the death of his daughter in the 1950s by the family. She received the building in its original condition and the later owners renovated it in 1987. Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an example of a house of the middle class from the time of the early 20th century in Hillsboro.

Building

In the house there is a cross-shaped building, the roof forms a mixture of hipped and gabled roof. Although it is primarily a Queen Anne building, but also has characteristics of Colonial Revival. The exterior of the house consists of horizontally mounted boards Cladding, fish scale shingles and a wrap-around deck and a few other decorative elements, such as sawed projections and turned wooden post.

The majority of the exterior is still as the house was originally built, including the stained glass windows. The interior of the house is also largely in its original condition, including the staircase with the lathe-turned railings. Fir wood paneling are throughout most of the house; the interior of the building is in the style of the Arts and Crafts Movement.