Coe, Henry Waldo, House (Portland, Oregon)

Title: Coe, Henry Waldo, House (Portland, Oregon)
LC Subject: Architecture, American Architecture--United States
Alternative: Doctor Henry Waldo and Doctor Viola Coe House (Portland, Oregon) Henry W. Coe House (Portland, Oregon)
Creator: Martin, Richard H., Jr.
Creator Display: Richard H. Martin, Jr. (architect, 1858-1950)
Description: This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
View: exterior
Provenance: Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Temporal: 1900-1909
Work Type: architecture (object genre) built works views (visual works) exterior views dwellings houses
Latitude: 45.529401
Longitude: -122.70276
Location: Portland >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States
Street Address: 933 Northwest 25th Avenue
Date: 1907
View Date: 1907
Identifier: pna_20222.jpg
Rights: In Copyright
Rights Holder: University of Oregon
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Set: Building Oregon
Primary Set: Building Oregon
Institution: University of Oregon
Note: In 1907, Martin designed the Dr. Henry Waldo Coe House, his most impressive residential work after leaving his partnership with William F. McCaw, with whom he designed the distinctive home for Dr. Kenneth A. J. Mackenzie. Some have erroneously attributed to the home's design to Whidden and Lewis, but articles in the Morning Oregonian substantiates Martin as the designer of this important, no longer extant work. Dr. Coe, who specialized in mental health, is best known today (architecturally) as the individual who moved the Massachusetts Building from the Lewis & Clark fair to the Mt. Tabor area to create a sanatorium. It eventually became a private residence. He is also remembered as the philanthropist who gave to the city four expensive statues: Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the Park Blocks, Joan of Arc in Laurelhurst, and George Washington in the Rose City Park neighborhood. The house, described in contemporary news accounts as one of the most beautiful and costly in the Portland, was reported to be a gift from the doctor to his wife on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary. Six years later, Dr. Coe won a divorce settlement from his wife on the grounds that she was cruel and inhumane. His wife, Viola Coe, was also a doctor, and a leader of Oregon’s suffragist movement and other social causes. The home is now the site of Lovejoy Medical Center.