THE FIRST AMERICANS–ex-mountain men such As Hillsboro grew larger, conflicts arose. The Downtown changed dramatically in the early as Joe Meek and Caleb Wilkins–arrived here in the concentration of saloons that had given it the 1900s, with the arrival of the first and second 1830s. By the early 1840s, the arrival of David Hill nickname “Sin City” contrasted sharply with more “interurban electric” trains. The Oregon Electric and Isaiah Kelsey and other new settlers made it refined influences: brass bands; literary societies; arrived on Washington Street 90 years before necessary to resolve whether Oregon would become fraternal groups; and temperance societies. The MAX opened on the same alignment. Southern an American or British land. In 1843, a provisional town changed physically as well. By the 1890s, Pacific’s “Red Electrics” ran on Main Street. Both government was formed at Champoeg (near Main Street was planked and new buildings were trains shared the streets with the new “horseless Newberg) and Oregon became American. The built from brick rather than timber by order of the carriages.” The interurbans ran for 30 years before Oregon Country was divided into four districts, City Council. Agriculture remained the foundation falling victim to the Great Depression. and since he was on the Legislative Committee, of the city economy, and stallion fairs were a the Twality District seat was on Hill’s property popular event on Main Street. By World War II, Hillsboro’s population in the tiny settlement of Columbia. After Hill’s had grown to over 3800, but it jumped death in 1850, his neighbors voted to rename the by over a third in the next decade, as war settlement as Hillsborough. industry workers from Portland settled in the community. After the war, automobiles Hillsborough grew as storekeepers built shops to had replaced horses as the main mode of serve the needs of the surrounding farmers, and transportation, but downtown remained government and professional men settled legal and the center of the community. financial transactions at the courthouse. In 1872, Ben Holladay asked for a free railroad depot site in downtown but was rebuffed by the City Council, so the railroad was routed several blocks south. Rail passengers were brought to the Tualatin Hotel on Main Street by a horse-drawn taxi. MAIN STREET STALLION PARADE 1895 LYON’S THIRST EMPORIUM BRASS BAND AND BANDSTAND ON COURTHOUSE LAWN COUNTY COURTHOUSE • 1895 • COURTHOUSE COUNTY WWW.WASHINGTONCOUNTYMUSEUM.ORG MUSEUM COUNTY WASHINGTON OF COURTESY PHOTOGRAPHS 503.681.6153 State Historic Preservation Office. Office. 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You’re invited to explore explore to invited You’re 90,000. over of Hillsboro of City the by population a with now Hillsboro, of This brochure was produced produced was brochure This center cultural the remains downtown WWW.HILLSBORO-OREGON.GOV IN THE 21ST CENTURY, CENTURY, 21ST THE IN s MAIN STREET HIGH SCHOOL SNAKE DANCE • 1950 • DANCE SNAKE SCHOOL HIGH STREET MAIN WALKING MAP WALKING hillsboro HISTORIC DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN HISTORIC 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 BAGLEY PARK 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 Shute Park 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.