Jamieson Parker

“ Absolute priority will be given to buildings of architectural or historical interest, or buildings of unusual type, or buildings exhibiting unique or exceptional features of plan or design which have not been restored or remodelled and which are in imminent danger of destruction or material alteration. ”

“ In eastern and northwestern Washington are many in teresting buildings of rough frontier types, such as forts, block houses, log cabins and mission churches. Information on eastern Oregon is at present meagre, but this great area doubtless contains significant survivals of early ranching and mining days. Portland is the headquarters for all workers in Oregon. ”

“ The comparatively few structures which can be saved by extraordinary effort and presented as exhibition houses and museums, or altered and used for residences or minor commercial uses comprise only a minor percentage of the interesting and important architectural specimens which remain from the old days. It is the responsibility of the American people that if the great number of our antique buildings must disappear through economic causes, they should not pass into unrecorded oblivion. ”

“ In the whole district there is no territory so rich in numbers of suitable buildings as the valleys of the Willamette and its tributaries, this being the natural result of extensive settlement along these rivers in the earliest period. ”

“ Buildings of historic importance, such as birth places of statesmen, eminent artists, or scientists, will be re corded even though their erection was subsequent to the date set.It is intended that the survey shall cover structures of all types, from the smallest utilitarian structures to the largest and most monumental. ”

“ It is a rule the most satisfying architecture is created when form is der from both function and structure, and this is no exception. Another truism is that the architectures of all times a places give the interpreter a seemingly infallible insight into lives of their creators. Man betrays in building, probably inevitably than in all other works, the picture of life that t perament and environment have subtly formed in his min a survey of early Oregon architecture this fact is always a ent. ”

“ The buildings listed been previously visited by the district officer and memb the advisory committee, approved, and written permiss
take measurements and photographs, secured from owner and occupant. It has been found convenient for the men to mea sure four buildings in succession; then, returning to their head quarters, they work simultaneously, each man making the drawings for one building with the mental impressions still clearly in his mind. ”

“ But for the wall construction, men skilled in the use of woodsmen's tools, and possessing few others, adopted as the easiest method one we would now consider very laborious.
Buildings of the true frontier type naturally belong, as a r to the period of exploration, fur trading, Indian mission Indian wars, which preceded settlement of farms and vill 'Western Oregon now has comparatively few well preserved vivals of this type; parts of Washington, where frontier life tended to a later date, contain more examples. ”

“ These are perfect illustrations o power and significance of design under physical limitat Many architects of today, as well as artists in other fields that modern industrial technique has made the produci
effects too easy, and the reaction from this is a strong contributing factor to modern emphasis of form, and suppression of ornament. No architectural detail, for example, could seem more significant through elemental form, or more in accord with the modern spirit, than the type of cornice on the Simeon G. Reed house, consisting as it does of one plane surface connecting wall and roof. ”

“ The moldings in these early buildings are always interes when judged with understanding of the effects desired an laborious hand work of producing them. For obvious rea plane surfaces were often used to approximate the effe curved moldings, and the results are frequently original, str and altogether admirable. ”

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