Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead
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The Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead is locally significant in the area of Architecture. Applicable Criterion: Criterion C (Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values). Justification: The property is considered an excellent and increasingly rare example of a late 19th-to-early 20th-century farmstead within the Hillsboro Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) that has maintained good integrity. House: Reflects the typical late-nineteenth-century Western Farmhouse form combined with Queen Anne stylistic ornamentation, indicating the elevated economic status of its owners. Barn: A largely intact, fine example of an early twentieth-century hay and livestock barn. Garage: An almost completely intact, purpose-built pre-1920 automobile storage building. Integrity: The farmstead maintains excellent integrity in its setting, location, and association, and retains good integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and feeling. The three contributing resources are all wood-frame structures. Original Construction (1890): Built by John Wright Shute and Elizabeth Constable Shute. It was a two-story cross-gabled structure with an offset "T" shape. Exterior: Features double-drop beveled wood siding, shingle siding in the gable ends, a prominent full-width, two-story porch with wood columns and turned balusters, and a classical design sensibility. Interior (1890 Massing): Retains original features like the leaded glass front door, wood trim (unpainted and classically-inspired), original door knobs and church key locks, and evidence of former kerosene/gas lighting fixtures. Wallpaper patterns from the era were preserved, including those glued over a 1900 newspaper layer. 1910 Addition (North Wing): Built by William Meierjurgen. This two-story wing included a new main entrance, a dining room with a large, double-wide sliding wood pocket door to the old parlor, and an upstairs hallway with two bedrooms. It features an original built-in cabinet wall with glass doors and a rare upstairs accessible porch. 1976 Alteration (Non-Contributing): A one-story, hip-roof addition was built on the northwest façade (rear), which included a new large dining room/living room with a working double fireplace and added first and second-floor bathrooms to the west end of the original structure. Type: Two-story, gable-roof livestock and hay barn. Dimensions: 64 feet long (east-west) by 38 feet wide (north-south). Construction: Built by William Meierjurgen. Rests on a rock/concrete and wood pier foundation, featuring hand-hewn 12x12 old-growth timber beams.
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When was Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead listed on the National Register?
Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 2018.
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Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead is recorded as the industrial era.
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