Wade Hampton Pipes

Pipes Family House

Wade Hampton Pipes (July 31, 1877 – July 1, 1961) was an American architect in based in Portland, Oregon. Pipes was considered the "foremost exponent of English Cottage architecture" in the state.[1]

Career

Pipes admired the work of English architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens,[2] and was also influenced by C. F. A. Voysey.[3] He designed in the Arts and Crafts style.[3] In his fifty-year career, he designed some 70 residences.[3] Many of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[4][5] In 1926, Pipes designed and a Tudor Revival style home in Southwest Portland for his father, judge Martin L. Pipes.[1] The house is listed on the NRHP as the Martin Luther Pipes House.[5] He also designed houses for naturalist William L. Finley, congressman Maurice Crumpacker, and author Lewis A. McArthur.[3]

Personal life

Pipes was born on July 31, 1877 in Independence, Oregon.[3]

Pietro Belluschi described him as "an elegantly dressed man in English tweeds".[3]

Pipes died on July 1, 1961, having spent his entire life in Oregon except for his period of study in England.[3]

Education

From 1907 to 1911, Pipes studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, England.[3]

Works on the NRHP

References

  1. 1 2 "Pipes House: An English Cottage Style". Portland Business Journal. April 30, 1999. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
  2. Hawkins, William John; Willingham, William F. (1999). Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon: 1850-1950 (2000 ed.). Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-433-4.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Clarke, Ann Brewster (1985). Wade Hampton Pipes: Arts and Crafts Architect in Portland, Oregon. Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort. ISBN 0-8323-0451-4.
  4. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  5. 1 2 "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. June 6, 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
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