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Clarence L. Smith
Clarence L. Smith (1894–1951) was an American architect. According to a drafted nomination for a proposed Fairmount Historic District in Salem, Oregon, he was a "locally prominent and prolific architect" of Salem.Note: The Fairmount Historic District was drafted but not finally nominated. Sefollowup. Smith was born in Portland, Oregon. In Portland, he apprenticed under Charles Ertz and then under O. L. DuPuy, and then under others in Ithaca, New York, New York City, and Portland again. He completed two years of study in architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca. and A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Works *Curtis Cross House (1924), 1635 Fairmount Ave., S. Salem, Oregon (original design by Clarence L. Smith, completed by architect Jamieson Parker), NRHP-listed *Gaiety Hollow, the home of Elizabeth Blodget Lord, Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver of the landscape architecture firm Lord & Schryver *Marion County Housing Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem, Oregon
Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County, Oregon, Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk County, Oregon, Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem, Salem, Oregon, West Salem is in Polk County. Salem was founded in 1842, became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, and was incorporated in 1857. Salem had a population of 174,365 in 2019, making it the third-largest city in the state after Portland, Oregon, Portland and Eugene, Oregon, Eugene. Salem is the principal city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, a United States metropolitan area, metropolitan area that covers Marion and Polk counties and had a combined population of 390,738 at the 2010 census. A 2019 estimate placed the metropolitan population at 400,408, the state's second largest. This area is, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Schryver
Edith Eleanor Schryver (1901–1984) was a founding partner of Lord & Schryver, the first female owned and operated landscape architecture firm in the Pacific Northwest from 1929-1969. Early years Edith Schryver was born on March 20, 1901 in Kingston, New York. She grew up in an apartment over the Kingston railroad station where her father, George Schryver, managed the restaurant and her mother Eleanor Young was a homemaker. In 1903, her brother Harry Schryver was born. After high school, she attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York to study watercolor. In 1920 she transferred to the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women in Groton, Massachusetts. The coursework there was intensive and lasted three years. It included architectural drafting, freehand and perspective drawing, construction, surveying, site engineering, history of architecture and landscape architecture, soils, plant materials, elementary forestry, botany, and entomology. While at Lowthorpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Deaths
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through the Nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston. The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census. The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans, and was firs .... * February 12 ** French anarchist Émile Henry (anarchist), Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. ** The barque ''Elisabeth Rickmers'' of Bremerhaven is wrecked at Haurvig, Denmark, but all crew and passengers are saved. * February 15 ** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem, OR
Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County. Salem was founded in 1842, became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, and was incorporated in 1857. Salem had a population of 174,365 in 2019, making it the third-largest city in the state after Portland and Eugene. Salem is the principal city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan area that covers Marion and Polk counties and had a combined population of 390,738 at the 2010 census. A 2019 estimate placed the metropolitan population at 400,408, the state's second largest. This area is, in turn, part of the Portland-Vancouver-Salem Combined Statistical Area. The city is home to Willamette University, Corban University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaiety Hill-Bush's Pasture Park Historic District
Gaiety or Gayety may refer to: * Gaiety (mood), the state of being happy * Gaiety Theatre (other) * ''USS Gayety (AM-239'', former name of the ship ''BRP Magat Salamat (PS-20) BRP ''Magat Salamat'' (PS-20) is one of several ''Miguel Malvar'' class of patrol corvettes in service with the Philippine Navy. She was originally built as USS ''Gayety'' (AM-239), an with a similar hull to the produced during World War II. In ...'' See also * Gaiety Girls {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar T
Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (1819). People with the given name * Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England * Edgar the Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England * Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland * Edgar Angara, Filipino lawyer * Edgar Barrier, American actor * Edgar Baumann, Paraguayan javelin thrower * Edgar Bergen, American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist * Edgar Berlanga, American boxer * Edgar H. Brown, American mathematician * Edgar Buchanan, American actor * Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author, creator of ''Tarzan'' * Edgar Cantero, Spanish author in Catalan, Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion County Housing Committee Demonstration House
The Marion County Housing Committee Demonstration House in Salem, Oregon is a small house from c. 1860 that was renovated extensively in 1934–35. It has also been known as the William Beckett House, named for the person believed to be the original owner in the 1860s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is a work of architects Clarence L. Smith Clarence L. Smith (1894–1951) was an American architect. According to a drafted nomination for a proposed Fairmount Historic District in Salem, Oregon, he was a "locally prominent and prolific architect" of Salem.Note: The Fairmount Historic Dis ... and Frank S. Strubble. and References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Salem, Oregon Colonial Revival architecture in Oregon Houses completed in 1935 1935 establishments in Oregon {{Oregon-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord & Schryver
Lord & Schryver was the first landscape architecture firm run by women in the Pacific Northwest. It was founded by Elizabeth Blodget Lord and Edith Schryver. It was headquartered in Salem, Oregon Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County, Oregon, Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river ..., running from 1929 to 1969. The firm designed more than 200 gardens. References Landscape architecture Landscape design history of the United States Companies based in Salem, Oregon American companies established in 1929 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lord and Schryver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Blodget Lord
Elizabeth Blodget Lord (1887–1974) was a founding partner of Lord & Schryver, the first female owned and operated landscape architecture firm in the Pacific Northwest from 1929-1969. Early years Elizabeth Lord was born on November 12, 1887 in Salem, Oregon to a prominent Pacific Northwest family. When she was eight years old, her father, William Paine Lord, was elected Oregon’s ninth governor. Lord’s mother, Juliet Montague Lord, was a social activist and avid gardener who travelled extensively, often accompanied by her daughter. In 1899 her father was appointed United States minister to the Argentine and the family moved to Buenos Aires for two years. There Lord studied at the Language School for Girls, becoming fluent in Spanish. She returned to Oregon in 1904 and studied at St Helen’s Hall in Portland, graduating in 1904. William P. Lord died in 1911, leaving a substantial estate for his wife and children. Elizabeth spent the next 15 years as her mother’s companion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaiety Hollow
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Gaiety or Gayety may refer to: * Gaiety (mood), the state of being happy * Gaiety Theatre (other) * ''USS Gayety (AM-239'', former name of the ship ''BRP Magat Salamat (PS-20)'' See also *Gaiety Girls Gaiety Girls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George Edwardes. The popularity of this genre of musical theatre depended, in part, on the beautifu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
