Charles Shorey House

Charles Shorey was born in 1850 in Waterville, Maine, and moved to Washington County, Oregon, in 1878.[3] Around 1908 he purchased 1.7 acres (6,900 m²) on Main Street in Hillsboro from Wesley W. Boscow for $857.[3] Formerly part of the Boscow Dairy Farm, Shorey used the land to build a home for his family.[3] Once complete he moved the family from their homestead near Mountaindale on Dairy Creek.[3] The family included his wife Sarah and daughter Eliza Jane.[3]

A carpenter, Charles died in 1934 followed by Sarah in 1938.[3] The home remained in the family with Eliza living there until she died in the 1950s.[3] She preserved the home,[4] and later owners renovated the house in 1987.[5] By 1989 the Slansky family owned the property, and on June 16 of that year the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as an example of a middle class home from turn of the century Hillsboro.[2][3]

The home is a cross-shaped structure featuring the mixture of both a gambrel roof and a gable roof.[4] Primarily Queen Anne in style, the two-story wood building also has features of the Colonial Revival style.[3][5] The exterior contains horizontal board siding, some fish-scale shingles, a wraparound porch, and other decorative accents.[3] These accents include jigsawn brackets and turned-posts on the porch.[6]

Much of the exterior remains as it was with the original building materials still intact, including lead windows.[3][6] The interior is also largely in original condition including the main stairway that has turned balusters.[3] Fir wainscot is present throughout most of the home, which the interior design is of an Arts and Crafts style design.[3]

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