Rice–Gates House

The Rice - Gates House is a historic private residence on the South East Walnut Street in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Established in 1890, completed construction in the Second Empire has two floors and has a mansard roof. The built wooden house was registered on 8 September 1980 in the National Register of Historic Places.

History

The lawyer William J. Rice had in 1890 to build a new two-story house, which was then south of the center of Hillsboro was. He sold it in 1903 to Harry V. Gates, a former deputies in the parliament of Oregon. Gates sold his part in 1911 to his son Oliver B. Gates, but remained in the house live. Both lived in it until 1927.

Details

The house is built in the style of the Second Empire and the mansard roof is covered with diamond-shaped shingles. This is offset by an embedded cornice of the facade, pediment adorning the front of the dormer windows, the eaves is provided with pairs of projections. The windows of the house are finished at the top with a bow, a cornice is located above each window. The designers of the L- shaped house used in the two-story building, the construction of the balloon framing, the timber was long enough to extend from the base to the roof of the house instead of just to the bottom of the next projectile.

The side cladding of the building consists of horizontal wooden boards that are painted yellow, with color accents are set in burgundy and aquamarine. Other feature of the exterior design are posts with brackets and fretwork. Around the house through three porches, each of which is covered with a mansard roof to the main roof matching. One of these porches is designed as a conservatory and enclosed with windows, the other two have open arches that support the roof. The posts are decorated in the upper section with detailed embellishments. In some areas of the house the windows are set in pairs. and the main entrance is located under a curved fighter windows, surmounted by a cornice is.

The cellar is built of bricks which are laid in stretcher bond, with a large part of the basement is above the ground. The horizontal boards with which the façade is clad on the ground floor, pulls up to the upper floor, the rest is covered by the steeply rising mansard roof. The building has two interior brick chimneys, where Kapitellkonsolen sit. The windows are simple Aufziehfenster that are opened from the bottom. The doors and windows are decorated in a similar manner as the posts of the porches.