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108 W 18th - Martin House - Built in 1904, this house was designed by prominent Oregon architect, Ellis F. Lawrence. Lawrence was founder of the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts. He designed the early campus plan as well as many fraternity and sorority houses in Eugene. This Arts and Crafts style house has a distinctive roof shape and massing. Alex Martin Jr., Vice President of the Eugene Loan and Savings Bank, appears to have been the first owner of the house. |
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1900 Olive - Columbia College Marker - Placed here by the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers in 1906, this basalt column commemorates College Hill's namesake, Columbia College. The school was located about half a block south on the west side of present-day Olive Street. The faint rock engraving reads "Columbia College, First School of Higher Education in Lane County. Built in 1854". |
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96 W 20th - Edgar Moore House - Located in the popular Hill Crest addition, this house was built in 1912 by the famed Eugene construction team of Archie Terrill and Laurence Hunter for Edgar and Sadie Moore. Edgar Moore served as the Superintendent of Schools in Lane County beginning in 1914. Moore contributed greatly to the modernization of area schools. Two years after his 1933 retirement, Edgar died at age 78. Sadie Moore continued to live at this address until she died in 1954 at the age of 97. The intact interior of this bungalow exhibits the type of well-constructed, Craftsman style interior for which Laurence Hunter was famous. The structure is a City Landmark. |
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2058 Olive - Archie Terrill House - This 1908 Dutch Revival house with Neo-Classical details was designed by Eugene architect John Hunzicker and built by Archie Terrill for the Terrill family. The home cost about $3,000 to build. Terrill and partner Laurence Hunter frequently collaborated with Hunzicker in the construction of fraternity and sorority houses and large residences in and around Eugene. Mrs. Terrill was rumored to have disliked the house and only two years later the family moved to 2028 Olive. The house and 4 lots were sold to William Brenton, a civil engineer and owner of the Khoda Khan fraternity house.
When the Terrills lived on College Hill, there were no houses to the south. Instead, there was an orchard with cherries, walnuts and nectarines and over the hill crest to the south was the Eugene Country Club and golf course. Sidewalks were wooden and the street was dirt. The family had 2 cows and a calf and a raspberry patch where 2036 Olive now stands. |
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2211 Olive - Phillips House - Built in 1925, this was the residence of Truman and Mildren Phillips. Phillips, an alumnus of the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts, was an architect in the firm Hunzicker, Smith and Phillips, and it is presumed he designed and built the house. The structure is Jacobean style with other influences. |
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2210 Olive - Maurice Allen House - This house is an excellent example of the picturesque English cottage style. Built about 1930, it exhibits rolled eaves and textured shingles made to resemble thatching. Also of note is the oriel, or above-ground bay window. The house was owned by Maurice Allen, an engineman at the Southern Pacific Company. |
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2075 Charnelton - Dot Dotson House - This was the home of Dot and Elsie Dotson. Dot, who opened a portrait studio in 1929, is best known for the commercial photography business he began in 1931 and operated until the 1960's. Elsie was employed at the Register-Guard. It was the success of Dotson's business which finally allowed him and his wife, in 1933, to move into this bungalow they had built in 1927 (before they married). Dotson has previously worked as a teller at the First National Bank, and rented his house to co-worker Walter Banks until 1933. The house remains in excellent condition. |
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1888 Lincoln - Gothic Vernacular House - This Gothic vernacular house was constructed around 1890. Little is known about its history. The residence shows excellent workmanship including the corbellated chimney. With the exception of new porch columns, very few changes have been made to the house, which is in excellent condition. |
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1990 Lincoln - Queen Anne House - Built circa 1890, this house served as the home of Acy Higgins and family between 1892 and 1910. This Queen Anne style house is not as it originally appeared. It was first remodeled in 1915 and a sleeping porch was added in 1933. Two flanking wings and the present siding were added later. |
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2056 Lincoln - Frederick Smith House - Built around 1890, this structure is also known as Landsdowne House. After 1902, it was the home of Frederick Smith, who purchased it for $2,000. The Smith family had a kitchen garden north of the house and a barn in the rear. Smith's son John reported that to reach the house one approached from 17th Avenue on 1 by 12 inch boards arranged lengthwise. Mr. Smith owned and operated a farm near Springfield where he worked and commuted to visit his family for weekends and short visits. The family eventually moved to a house Smith built on the farm.
In the 1910's Jesse Wells lived in the house and began his 13-year term as Justic of the Peace. Agricultural use must have continued here, with the construction of a chicken house in 1940. The house is a excellent example of Queen Anne style architecture exhibiting various roof forms and shingle and siding textures as well as elaboarate ornamentation. |
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1991 Lawrence - Wallace Hurlburt House - The Hurlburt family resided in this Queen Anne Cottage from the time of it's construction (around 1890) until the 1930's. Wallace Hurlburt was a carpenter and a tinner and is presumed to have built the house. The Hurlburts were not residents here from 1911 to 1918 when widow Sarah lived at 1999 Lincoln (#9 on this tour). She returned to this house in 1918. The house lacks much of the detail associated with the Queen Anne style. |
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2008 Washington - Gothic Vernacular House - Built circa 1890, there is very little known about the early history of this structure. The first resident was either Wesley Ames, a farmer, or George Fleeman, a carpenter. Charles Thorpe, a ship carpenter, and his wife Dora moved to the house in the 1910's. Later occupants include postal carrier Francis Taylor and his wife Gertrude. The Gothic vernacular house is virtually intact. |
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1935 Madison - Gothic Vernacular House - This Gothic vernacular house was built around the turn of the century. The first residents are unknown. Shoemaker Harfield Hatch and his wife Elizabeth lived in the house from at least 1907 until the 1930's. Some modifications have been made. The structure is currently in fair condition. NOTE: This house was demolished in 2010. |
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2050 Madison - William Masterson House - William Masterson was born in 1813, his wife Violet in 1824. The native Kentuckians migrated to the southern Willamette Valley in 1851 and were granted a Donation Land Claim in Springfield where the Dorris Ranch is now located. The Mastersons purchased a 160-acre farm on the west side of College Hill and, in 1857, built this house where they lived with their eight children. The farm included orchards with apple trees; wheat, oats, and sometimes flax; and horses and mile cows. Locust trees planted during the 1850's still stand on the east side of Madison Street.
Mary Margaret Masterson Dunn, the first Masterson child to be born in the house, recalled childhood memories of cooking apple butter in a large brass kettle, and of the springhouse where water was heated and the large wood family bathtub was kept.
The house is an example of a Classical Revival farmhouse although it was significantly remodeled by the 20th Century owners. |
