NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the interior National Park Service JAN 1 1 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NFS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property ___________________________________________ historic name other names/site number Fanno Creek Dairy House 2. Location street & number _ 8808 SW Rambler Lane for publication city or town ___ Portland C5I vicinity state Oregon code OR county Washington code 067 zip code 97223 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this S nomination D request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Q meets D does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant D nationally, D statewide S locally. (D See continuation sheet for additional comments.) December 30, 1992 Signature of certifying official/Title Date ________Oregon State Historic Preservation Office_____________ State of Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property D meets D does not meet the National Register criteria. (D See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying official/Title Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: Signature of the Keeper Date of Action Bantered in the National Register. D See continuation sheet. D determined eligible for the National Register D See continuation sheet. D determined not eligible for the National Register. D removed from the National Register. D other, (explain:) _________ Washington, Oregon County and State 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) 1X1 private S building(s) Contributing Noncontributing D public-local D district 1 buildings D public-State D site D public-Federal D structure sites D object structures objects 0 Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) in the National Register ___________N/A_______________ N/A 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) Domestic; single dwelling Domestic: single dwelling 7. Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) Mid 19th Century Gothic Revival foundation concrete block (Vernacular Gothic)_______ walls __ wnnd; weatherboard roof______asphalt: composition shingle other__________________________ Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) NTS fern, 1»«fr« WM«Olt United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number SUMMARY Set on a half acre of its original farm land amid pear trees from its orchard, the Fanno Creek Dairy house is a rare and delightful example of an intact Rural Gothic farmhouse, retaining its architectural and stylistic integrity — a well-preserved representative of the 1890s in the midst of post-World War II suburban Washington County. EXTERIOR The 2-story house is arranged in a T-plan with attachments on the east, north and west elevations. The house sits on a partial foundation of concrete blocks, and the main volumes are covered by gable roofs with composition asphalt shingles. Exterior details — commonly associated with Gothic and Stick, styles of architecture — are found as embellishments on walls, windows and eaves. The house is clad with bevel-channeled dropped siding and finished with corner and rake boards, watertable molding and a tongue- and-groove skirt. Particularly noteworthy is the architectural detailing on the exterior. The gabled projections on three elevations are similar. Each is enhanced by a fancy gable-end ornament through which a triangular panel of beveled tongue-and-groove boards, a belt course and octagonal pendants are visible. The pointed-arch windows on each of the gabled projections are paired and feature ornate sills. A carved panel is located between the peaks of the window heads. At the first floor of the south and west elevations there is a polygonal bay window. The bays have a dentil course at the eave line and panelled spandrels with chamfered stiles and rails; the panels are applied diagonally. Thick, heavily textured colored glass appears in unusually configured mullions ("poor man's stained glass windows") on four windows on the east and west elevations. The front porch, at the southeast corner of the house, has a wood deck, chamfered posts and a combed "spindlework" frieze. Quarter- round molding at the interior corner of the porch suggests that the placement of the porch walls has been changed from the original, but NFS tarn 1MO»« OUB Appro* NO. 109+0011 (IM) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page. the majority of original stylistic features and materials remain intact. The porch balustrade is a geometric composition of combed 2x2"s in a square/rectangle pattern similar to the colored glass windows mentioned above. INTERIOR ENTRANCE HALL AND STAIRWAY The front door, on the north side of the porch, has four vertical panels (like all the doors in the house), plain surrounds and a transom light which is covered by a storm window. Inside, there is a colored glass window in the small entry hall. Chair-rail molding with bead-board panelling continues down the hallway and up the original stairwell, which has a turned wood bannister. At the landing, there is another colored glass window. FAMILY ROOM AND LIVING ROOM/OFFICE The two large main-floor rooms open off the south end of the front hallway at the bottom of the staircase. The chair-rail molding with bead-board wainscotting continues throughout the Family Room. This molding is engine-turned half-round. In the Living Room/Office, the original picture molding remains, 18" from the ceiling. 6" wide grooved molding frames the bay window in the Living Room/Office. Historical period doorknobs and backplates of brass, crystal, wood (one ebony) are evident everywhere. In these two main rooms downstairs, the original plaster ceiling rosettes remain, in tobacco leaf and grape leaf patterns. Ceilings are 10' high. There is original cut-corner molding on door and window frames in both these rooms and on doors and windows throughout the house. Each room features a polygonal bay window; all doors off these rooms feature glass transom lights. Original fir floor remains in the family room, along with a brick fireplace. KITCHEN AND NOOK/LAUNDRY/PANTRY/PLAYROOM The small utility rooms are in the "north elevation shed attachments" to the house, probably added in the historical period (see below.) These rooms are characterized by squared-off window frames, and no moldings or panelling. A small window in the playroom is interesting: though built to the same square/rectangle pattern frame as the colored glass windows in the south half of the house, it contains only clear glass. Though the kitchen has been largely remodelled, some of the original wainscot and molding remains on two of the walls. NFS torn IMOCto CMS Aflprov* Ma 103+001$ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number ? Page 3 of 5 UPSTAIRS AND BEDROOMS Facing the colored-glass window on the staircase landing is a matching window on the west wall at the top of the stairs. Each of the three gable bedrooms upstairs is lit by a pair of gothic pointed-arch windows, with original glass: facing respectively south, west and east. All bedrooms have original fir flooring; there is no wall-to-wall carpeting anywhere in the house. The four-panel bedroom doors are intact, and a scaled-down version of the cut-corner doorframes on the main floor appears on the upstairs doorframes. ALTERATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS HISTORICAL PERIOD . Alterations, probably occurring within the historical period, include changes to the shed roof attachment on the west elevation and the addition of two shed roof attachments on the north elevation. These currently comprise the kitchen nook, pantry, laundry room and playroom on the north elevation, and the downstairs bathroom on the west (see below). The original house probably consisted of the kitchen, family room, and the East and West bedrooms; the southern half of the house, consisting of front porch, front hall, living room/office, staircase and master bedroom were possibly added in the historical period, along with the two attachments on the north elevation (nook/pantry/laundry/playroom). This is indicated not only by structural clues, but by the colored glass windows which appear only in the southern half of the house. RECENT 1. Storm windows. Enameled aluminum throughout. 2. Porch balustrade. Recently (1992) replaced in an exact replication of the original combed 2x2"s. 3.