OREGON INVENTORY OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES HISTORIC RESOURCE SURVEY FORM Note: For properties 35 years old and newer, starred (*) sections are the only required fields. *County: Clackamas *Street Address: 16715 Phantom Bluff Court *City Situs Address: Lake Oswego USGS Quad Name: GPS Reading, UTM Format (Universal Transverse Mercator): Lake Oswego Longitude: 122°42'4.26"W Latitude: 45°24'21.36"N Township: Range: Section: Block/Lot: Tax Lot #: 2S 1E 9CC 1900 Historic Name: Grouping or Cluster Name: Richard W. and Mildred Beatrice Deaver. Sundeleaf House *Date of Construction: Other Name: 1939-40 Sundeleaf, Richard, House Historic Use or Function: *Current Use: Associated Archaeological Site: DOMESTIC: Single Dwelling DOMESTIC: Single Dwelling Unknown Architectural Classification(s): Plan Type/Shape: Number of stories: Tudor Revival Rectangular 2 Foundation Material: Structural Framing: Moved? Concrete Stud No Roof Type/Material: Window Type/Material: Gable with cross gables and dormers, cedar shingles Multi-light casement /wood Exterior Surface Materials Primary: Secondary: Decorative: Stucco/brick half-timbered brick, pegged cedar Leaded glass windows, stained glass, carved beams and posts, cedar beveled siding wood panels by bay windows, curved cedar brackets, exposed beam ends Exterior Alterations or Additions, Approximate Date: The attached garage appears to have been incorporated into the home and a detached garage was constructed to the south of the house (date unknown). Number and Type of Associated Resources: Garage to the south of home. Integrity: Condition: Local Eligibility: National Register Listed? Excellent Excellent On LDL Yes No Unknown Preliminary National Register Findings: Potentially Eligible: Individually or As a contributing resource in a District Not Eligible: Intact but lacks distinction or Not 50 years old or Altered - Choose one: Reversible/ potentially eligible individually or in a District Reversible/ ineligible, lacks distinction Irretrievable lack of integrity *Researcher/ Organization: Date Recorded: L. Radwanski/E. Heideman/A. Boyd/ SWCA-1220 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR 97205 August 2014 City of Lake Oswego, 380 “A” Avenue, Lake Oswego, OR 97034 Additional research and review by Erin O’Rourke-Meadors SHPO #: Survey Form Page 1 of 11 Revised 12/02 OREGON INVENTORY OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES HISTORIC RESOURCE SURVEY FORM *County: Clackamas Street Address: 16715 Phantom Bluff Court City: Situs Address: Lake Oswego Description of Physical and or Landscape Features The Richard W. and Mildred Beatrice Deaver Sundeleaf House is located at 16715 Phantom Bluff Court on a lakeside lot on the south side of Oswego Lake. The home sits on a 1.5-acre, irregularly shaped lot on the north side of Phantom Bluff Court. The home is sited on a well-landscaped lot with brick terraces and planters, filled with flowering shrubs and perennial and annual plantings. The home is roughly centered on the lot, sitting approximately 160 feet from both the lake and Phantom Bluff Court. A long driveway leads from Phantom Bluff Court to the east edge of the lot and then curves around the house to the west to a parking area on the east side of the home. The two-story house has a wide, steeply pitched, low gable roof with two front-gabled projections on the west end of the south façade and two front-gabled projections on the west end of the north façade. The roof is clad in cedar shingles. A wall chimney is located at the west end of the house, and gabled dormers are on both the north and south roof slopes. Another brick chimney is located on the southernmost gable end. The chimney steps in at the roofline and is capped with a metal chimney cap. The main body of the house is clad in stucco, and on the west side of the south façade the two gable projections are clad in half-timbered brick. The gable ends are clad with horizontal cedar bevel siding and most of the gable dormers are also clad in bevel siding. Window types vary, but most are wood multilight casement and multilight fixed windows. On the east façade of the house is an oriel window with fixed or casement multilight leaded windows. The rear doors to the patio are multilight leaded French doors. It appears all of the dormers have multilight leaded windows. The eastern gable projection on the south façade has a full second- story multilight leaded window, a character-defining feature of the home. A garage sits to the south of the home at the edge of the paved drive. The 1989 cultural resources inventory suggests there are no associated structures (Koler and Morrison 1989). The driveway leads to the house, and it appears a garage could have been the easternmost portion of the home. It is unclear if the garage was more recently constructed and more research should be done to see if an attached garage was converted to living space. The 1989 cultural resources inventory does not list any known changes to the structure and no other changes are apparent. The Richard W. and Mildred Beatrice Deaver Sundeleaf House exhibits many of the character-defining features associated with the Tudor Revival style, including, a steeply pitched, side-gable, cedar shingle clad roof, primary stucco siding and secondary half-timbered brick siding, windows with lead muntins, wood-framed multilight windows, and an asymmetrical form reminiscent of a late-medieval English manor. *Researcher/ Organization: Date Recorded: L. Radwanski/E. Heideman/A. Boyd/ SWCA-1220 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR 97205 August 2014 City of Lake Oswego, 380 “A” Avenue, Lake Oswego, OR 97034 Additional research and review by Erin O’Rourke-Meadors SHPO #: Survey Form Page 2 of 11 Revised 12/02 OREGON INVENTORY OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES HISTORIC RESOURCE SURVEY FORM *County: Clackamas Street Address: 16715 Phantom Bluff Court City: Situs Address: Lake Oswego Statement of Significance The Richard W. and Mildred Beatrice Deaver Sundeleaf House, overlooking Oswego Lake, at 16715 Phantom Bluff Court, in the Palisades neighborhood of Lake Oswego, is significant as both an excellent example of the Tudor Revival style and as the personal residence of the Richard Sundeleaf family. The house was designed by Sundeleaf in 1939 on a rugged shelf on the Lake’s south shore, where one finds a number of Sundeleaf designed houses on large lots, including the house designed for his daughter and son-in-law. Richard Wilhelm Sundeleaf (1900-1987) was one of Oregon’s most significant and prolific architects with projects in Oregon, Washington, England and Australia. He was born and raised in Portland, graduated from Washington High School, and, in 1923, the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture. Following graduation, he began his career working as a draftsman for prominent architect, Wade H. Pipes, and for the Portland firms of A. E. Doyle and of Sutton and Whitney. He established his own architectural office, in the Public Service Building, on August 1, 1928. Although his initial work focused on commercial projects for clients such as the Jantzen Knitting Mills, and Oregon Portland Cement, he was soon considered “…among Portland’s most versatile architects”. His body of work included vast and diverse commercial, educational, industrial, office, religious and residential designs. It is estimated that during his more than sixty year career as an architect, he had “completed more than 3,000 projects”. A number of his designs are found on the National Register of Historic Places, and include the: Dr. Walter Black House; Chi Psi Fraternity House; Clarence E. Francis House; Carl C. Jantzen Estate Jantzen Knitting Mill Building; Paul F. Murphy House; E. J. O’Donnell House; and Oregon Portland Cement Building He designed the model house for the Ladd Estate Company in 1937 (The Oregonian 1987). The home was located on 432 Country Club in Oswego and was featured in The Sunday Oregonian several times during its public inspection period (The Sunday Oregonian 1937a, 1937b). The house’s resulting success-it reportedly attracted over 10,000 visitors in a 6-week period-helped further encourage Lake Oswego’s transformation from an industrial company town into a wealthy enclave consisting of a substantial country club, as well as neighborhoods dominated in the first half of the twentieth century by Tudor Revival, Arts and Crafts, and English Cottage–style houses (American Builder and Building Age 1938). Many Sundeleaf-designed houses are now part of the Lake Oswego Landmark Designation List and some are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (The Oregonian 1987). “Richard Wilhelm was born on February 8, 1987, in Portland, and died, at his home in Lake Oswego, on March 8, 1987. Richard was the second son of Charles A. Sundeleaf, a Swedish immigrant, and Gracia M. Welsh, of Oregon. At the time of the 1910, and 1920 Census, Richard is living with his parents and brothers at the family home on Leo Street, in SE Portland. His father’s employment as a waiter has now advanced and he is manager at the Oyster Loaf Restaurant. On October 10, 1925, Richard marries Mildred Beatrice Deaver at the Westminster Presbyterian Church. The Oregonian Society News reports a reception followed at the Hotel Oregon. Mildred was born on May 25, 1903 in Missouri; she was the eldest child of Robert L. Deaver, of Iowa, and Annie E. Badger, of Missouri. Sometime between 1910 and1913. The Deaver family moved to Oregon, where Robert was part of the University of Oregon’s Class of 1914, receiving a Bachelor of Law. Despite his law degree, Robert is found, as of 1924, to be a house contractor, principal of the R. L. Deaver & Company; and, the 1930, the Census, also, lists his occupation as “house contractor. Prior to her marriage, Mildred attended Oregon Agricultural College, today’s Oregon State University. Mildred was very active politically; a number of Letters to the Editor were published in The Oregonian on a variety of political topics.