Charles Shorey House
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Charles Shorey House | |
 Front of building in 2009 | |
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| Location | Hillsboro, Oregon, USA |
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| Coordinates | 45°31′20″N 122°58′31″W / 45.52222°N 122.97528°W |
| Built | c. 1908[1] |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000518[2] |
| Added to NRHP | June 16, 1989[2] |
The Charles Shorey House is a two-story wood home on Main Street in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Completed about 1908, the Queen Anne style structure was built by Charles Shorey. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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]
