Building Oregon

Thompson, Lewis C. and Emma, House (Carlton, Oregon)

Title
Thompson, Lewis C. and Emma, House (Carlton, Oregon)
LC Subject
Architecture, American Architecture Historic buildings Architecture, Domestic
Alternative
Glenbrook Farm (Carlton, Oregon) Meyer / Thompson Place (Carlton, Oregon) Lewis C. and Emma Thompson House (Carlton, Oregon)
Description
Constructed ca. 1892, the Lewis C. and Emma Thompson house is located in unincorporated Yamhill County on land once part of Glenbrook Farm. While three generations of the Thompson family are associated with the listed property, it was Lewis C. Thompson, a farmer and businessman, and his wife Emma, who stylistically revised this house. The couple incorporated Craftsman Style features onto the house’s initial Stick Style design, resulting in a replacement of the old style with the new. Significantly, the Thompson house represents the transition from nineteenth century Victorian era design motifs, which focused on verticality, applied ornamentation, and complex rooflines, to the early-twentieth century modern approach to residential design, which focused on horizontality, open floorplans, and ornamentation that revealed and celebrated structural elements. This change is well captured in the Thompson House and is a stark representation of one of the greatest shifts in American domestic architectural history. This content 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. National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2018)
View
exterior: west side facade, south end, looking east
Temporal
1890-1899 1900-1919
Work Type
architecture (object genre) built works
Latitude
45.287213
Longitude
-123.246492
Location
Carlton >> Yamhill County >> Oregon >> United States Yamhill County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address
12789 Meadowlake Road
Date
1892
Identifier
OR_YamhillCounty_LewisCAndEmmaThompsonHouse_0004
Rights
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Rights Holder
The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit photographer and the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
Source
Armstrong, Eli and Stephanie. "Lewis C. and Emma Thompson House, National Register Nomination." (2018)
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Set
Building Oregon
Primary Set
Building Oregon
Institution
University of Oregon