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Haycox, Ernest, Estate (Portland, ORegon)

Alternative Title
  • Ernest Haycox Estate (Portland, ORegon)
Creator Display
  • Glen Stanton (architect, 1896-1969)
Creator
Date
  • 1940
Description
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 1993)
  • National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Prepared by John H. Tess. President, and Richard E. Ritz. FAIA, June 14, 1993
Temporal
  • 1940-1949
MODS Note
  • The country estate house of western author Ernest Haycox in the Green Hills district of southwest Portland, Oregon was designed in the Georgian Colonial style by Glenn Stanton and brought to completion in 1940. The house is the centerpiece of a tract of just under six acres. It commands a view toward the Tualatin Valley to the south. The white-painted brick house is formally composed as a two-story, side gabled central volume of 32 x 60 feet with one-and-a-halfstory dependencies at either end. The long axis is east-west, with the library wing on the west and the kitchen/utility and garage wing on the east. Parapet chimneys surmount either gable of the main block. The north front, approached by a circular drive from SW Humphrey Boulevard, is distinguished by a pedimented central entrance pavilion handsomely detailed with a denticulated cornice with returns, rusticated quoins and second story Palladian window in the image of Georgian mansions of the Colonial era. The south, or private elevation is fronted by a two-story bow window and colossal portico on slender columns. Eclectic touches, employed with restraint, include polygonal bays and railings on the portico, bays and library gallery that evoke the late 18th century taste for Chinoiserie. The overall scheme, with its strong axial orientation, is a visually interesting attenuation of counteroriented gabled volumes, the complexity of which is heightened by ranks of gabled dormers. Among the notable period features of the well-crafted interior are the dramatic two-story oval entry hall with open-string, or geometric staircase and an Adamesque diningroom chimneypiece. In the Haycox house, Stanton distilled the spirit of late 18th century high style architecture and adapted it to a sequence of spaces for modern living. While clearly historical in reference, the composition achieved that modern emphasis on form which characterized better traditional work of the late 1930s and early '40s. Archeological detail was distinctly subordinate. Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) was a native of Portland and successor to Zane Grey in the development of the western novel. He launched his career in the 1920s by writing pieces for pulp magazines. Free Grass, his first novel, brought out in 1929, established his reputation in the literary genre. His work was serialized in Colliers Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post for good payment. He prospered through the Depression with his publishers, Doubleday and Little Brown and Company. Noteworthy among the 25 novels to his credit is Stage to Lordsburg, which was adapted for the screen as the John Ford classic, "Stagecoach." Haycox's writing evolved over 30 years from formula westerns to more universal themes in western settings. The last, and in the estimation of some, the best of these was The Earthbreakers, which he wrote shortly before his death in 1950. The author's contribution to Oregon letters was significant and justifies listing at the statewide level of his last long-term place of residence. A separate office which the author
  • Glenn Stanton (1895-1969) received his training in architecture at the University of Oregon and MIT. Principal for a time in the prominent firm of Whitehouse, Stanton and Church, he entered independent practice in 1935. A knowledge of historical architecture, particularly of classical styles, was common to traditionally educated architects of his day, and the residential work in which Stanton specialized after his departure from the Whitehouse firm consisted of a number of fine, freely-adapted versions of Colonial houses. The Haycox house on its generous view lot allowed the architect unusual scope for formal design and is in the top rank of his work. Source: quoted from National Register nomination.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Street Address
  • 4700 Southwest Humphrey Boulevard
GPS Latitude
  • 45.50525
GPS Longitude
  • -122.723995
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • OR_Multnomah_Portland_Haycox.pdf
Institution
Submission Date
  • 05/04/2015
Modified
  • 08/12/2022
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MLA

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Chicago

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Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Stanton, Glen http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/StantonGlen
2 Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
3 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
4 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
5 dwellings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005425
6 exterior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124515
7 houses http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005433
8 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
9 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
10 Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5742126/
11 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
12 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
13 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
14 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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