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COUNTY COURTHOUSE • 1895

BRASS BAND AND BANDSTAND ON COURTHOUSE LAWN COURTHOUSE ON BANDSTAND AND BAND BRASS

LYON’S THIRST EMPORIUM THIRST LYON’S

1895

PARADE STALLION

STREET MAIN

Main Street by a horse-drawn taxi. taxi. horse-drawn a by Street Main

passengers were brought to the Tualatin Hotel on on Hotel Tualatin the to brought were passengers

so the railroad was routed several blocks south. Rail Rail south. blocks several routed was railroad the so

downtown but was rebuffed by the City Council, Council, City the by rebuffed was but downtown

Ben Holladay asked for a free railroad depot site in in site depot railroad free a for asked Holladay Ben

financial transactions at the courthouse. In 1872, 1872, In courthouse. the at transactions financial

the center of the community. community. the of center the and legal settled men professional and government

remained downtown but transportation, and farmers, surrounding the of needs the serve

had replaced horses as the main mode of of mode main the as horses replaced had to shops built storekeepers as grew Hillsborough

the community. After the war, automobiles automobiles war, the After community. the

settlement as Hillsborough. Hillsborough. as settlement

industry workers from Portland settled in in settled Portland from workers industry

death in 1850, his neighbors voted to rename the the rename to voted neighbors his 1850, in death

by over a third in the next decade, as war war as decade, next the in third a over by

in the tiny settlement of Columbia. After Hill’s Hill’s After Columbia. of settlement tiny the in

jumped it but 3800, over to grown had

popular event on Main Street. Street. Main on event popular property Hill’s on was seat District Twality the

population Hillsboro’s II, War World By

a were fairs stallion and economy, city the of Committee, Legislative the on was he since and

falling victim to the Great Depression. Depression. Great the to victim falling foundation the remained Agriculture Council. City districts, four into divided was Country Oregon

carriages.” The interurbans ran for 30 years before before years 30 for ran interurbans The carriages.” the of order by timber than rather brick from built The American. became Oregon and Newberg)

trains shared the streets with the new “horseless “horseless new the with streets the shared trains were buildings new and planked was Street Main (near Champoeg at formed was government

Pacific’s “Red Electrics” ran on Main Street. Both Both Street. Main on ran Electrics” “Red Pacific’s 1890s, the By well. as physically changed town provisional a 1843, In land. British or American an

MAX opened on the same alignment. Southern Southern alignment. same the on opened MAX The societies. temperance and groups; fraternal become would Oregon whether resolve to necessary

before years 90 Street Washington on arrived societies; literary bands; brass influences: refined it made settlers new other and Kelsey Isaiah and

Electric Oregon The trains. electric” “interurban more with sharply contrasted City” “Sin nickname Hill David of arrival the 1840s, early the By 1830s.

1900s, with the arrival of the first and second second and first the of arrival the with 1900s, the it given had that saloons of concentration the in here Wilkins–arrived Caleb and Meek Joe as

Downtown changed dramatically in the early early the in dramatically changed Downtown The arose. conflicts larger, grew Hillsboro As such men –ex-mountain THE FIRST AMERICANS FIRST THE MORGAN & BAILEY COURTHOUSE CARNEGIE LIBRARY ZULA LINKLATER HOUSE CT RICHARDSON HOUSE BUILDING & SEQUOIAS 4 • 209 NE LINCOLN 5 • 230 NE SECOND 7 • 244 NE THIRD 1 • 203 E MAIN 2 • 124 NE SECOND Shortly after coming to America, Dr. Samuel Linklater had donated Dairy farming was a major industry John Morgan and Dr. F.A. Bailey This courthouse, with its Classic Scottish immigrant Andrew Carne- the land for the Carnegie Library, around Hillsboro in the late 1800s, had this building built circa 1892. Greek-style entry facing Second gie borrowed books from the owner but was shortly thereafter killed in practiced by German and Swiss It was occupied by a printing office, Street, was built in 1927. Courts of the telegraph company where he a train accident. His widow Zula immigrants. Several local compa- a pharmacy, and likely Wehrung and began meeting on this block in 1850, worked. After later making a fortune Warren Linklater raised her six nies consolidated in the early 1900s Son General Store. John Morgan was in a log building on David Hill’s in the steel industry, Carnegie created children, managed her husband’s to form the Carnation Company, an early developer who operated a property. The log building was re- a foundation that built over 2500 estate, and had a house built in 1923 that built a milk condenser plant in warehouse company with James Im- placed in 1853 by a two-story wooden public libraries throughout the world, on Second Avenue next to the library. south Hillsboro near Jackson Bottom brie and platted one of the city’s first building, which was replaced in 1873 including this building in Hillsboro. Zula’s daughter had asked her mother in 1907. The plant was expanded subdivisions in 1891. F.A. Bailey was with a brick building. In 1891 a clock Our library was completed in 1914. to build “a house that would last in 1914, and in 1917 Cornelius T. a doctor in the Confederate Army tower was added, but no money was It was designed by Portland architect forever” and perhaps in response, Richardson was transferred there. This who moved to Hillsboro in 1872, left for the clock. Brass bands played Ernest Kroner in a simple Italian Re- the Linklater home was constructed house, a simple but rich rectangular opened Hillsboro Pharmacy, and in a gazebo near Second and Main, naissance style. The steps to the main of concrete—the only residential bungalow style, was built for him and was elected mayor three times. The and community gatherings have entrance, off NE Lincoln Street, are example of that material in Hillsboro his family circa 1925. The Hillsboro building’s arched windows, outlined been held on the landscaped grounds deeply worn after generations of use. for many years. The Mediterranean- plant continued making condensed in broken brink with stained glass for over 140 years. The Courthouse style home is on the National milk until it was converted to a dog transoms, are original, but the original Sequoias were planted in 1880 as Register of Historic Places. food plant in 1948, manufacturing a ornate galvanized iron cornice at the seedlings brought from California new product called “Friskies.” top has been replaced by plain stucco. by pioneer nurseryman John Porter. NE 5TH NE 6TH NE 4TH NE 3RD NE 2ND 6

NE JACKSON

OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST: 8 7 TUALITY LODGE 5 3 • 176 NE SECOND 4 NE LINCOLN 6 • 201 NE JACKSON STREET FRANK MITCHELL HOUSE 3 8 • 233 NE THIRD CENTRAL STATION 2 11 • SE WASHINGTON AND THIRD 9 HENRY WEHRUNG HOUSE 1 17 13 • 472 SE WASHINGTON E MAIN JOHN SEWELL HOUSE 15 • 135 SE 6TH HILLSBORO 10 18 16 WALTERS CULTURAL CIVIC CENTER ARTS CENTER & WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM 15 17 • 527 E MAIN FIRST NATIONAL BANK 18 • 350 E MAIN 11 12 14 SE WASHINGTON PUBLIC RESTROOMS 13 SE 2ND SE 3RD SE 5TH SE 6TH SE 4TH

HILL THEATER AMERICAN NATIONAL LYONS HOUSE BARRETT HOUSE EDWARD SCHULMERICH 9 • 137 NE THIRD BANK 12 • 421 SE WASHINGTON 14 • 183 SE SIXTH HOUSE 10 • 276 E MAIN 16 • 614 E MAIN Local entertainment magnate Orange E.J. Lyons had this house built This American Foursquare-style Phelps opened his fifth theater here John Shute came to Oregon via Pana- around 1905. Lyons, the proprietor house was built circa 1912 for W.W. Conrad Schulmerich made his for- in 1937. It is the only known example ma in 1858 and incorporated the First of a saloon and a stable downtown, Barrett. Barrett was a district attorney tune mining gold, moved to Oregon of Art Deco architecture in Hillsboro. National Bank in Hillsboro in 1888. was a lifelong bachelor. Lyon’s Thirst and state representative, but his son in 1875, and built a general store that Features include a stepped parapet The bank reorganized in 1897 as two Emporium was one of four saloons “Diamond Bill” eclipsed his father’s still stands at the southwest corner of and a three-sided marquee with the institutions: the American National downtown in the late 1880s, a fame. Bill eloped twice with daugh- Second and Main. His son Edward letters “HILL” spelled out in neon Bank and the Shute Savings Bank. concentration that led to Hillsboro’s ters of wealthy men, spending their was president of the Hillsboro Com- facing north and south. Under the John Shute built this new building early nickname, “Sin City.” The Lyons money and leaving them. His most mercial Bank and Hillsboro Livery marquee, the façade is surfaced with in 1911 and promptly retired. The House is one of the best examples in notorious episode involved deception Company and served as a legislator. ceramic tiles. Inside, the original building’s architecture may have been Hillsboro of the Queen Anne (aka of the new wife of John Spreckles, Built circa 1915, Edward’s house is Art Deco railings to the mezzanine influenced by the “Chicago School” Victorian) architectural style. Ornate the sugar magnate. At Bill’s behest, an example of “airplane” bungalow remain. Orange Phelps oversaw con- style, which featured bigger windows, detailing on the house includes the Sydia Spreckles bought a $100,000 architecture, with its low mass, cock- struction of the Pavilion, less ornamentation, and terra cotta radiating stick work and fish-scale necklace that she “loaned” to Bill to pit-like gables, and projecting wings. was a catcher for Hillsboro’s first detailing. Larger retail windows have shingles in the gable ends, the detail- have appraised. Bill and the necklace The house also features klinker-brick semi-professional baseball team, and replaced the original windows on ing in the entablature above the port disappeared. Scotland Yard traced porch foundation and piers, milled served three terms as mayor. The Main Street, but the marble slabs columns, and the angled corners of Bill to Hollywood and arrested him, rafter ends, and leaded glass windows. Venetian Theater on Main Street is around the door and the terra cotta both the ground floor and the second but by charm and smooth talking he The home is on the National also an Orange Phelps theater, built lion heads at the bottom of the floor projection above the porch. persuaded them to let him go. Register of Historic Places. in 1925 and renovated in 2008. cornice are original.