Dr. Noble Wiley Jones House

Dr. Noble Wiley Jones House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	2187 SW Market Street Dr., Portland, Oregon
Coordinates:	45°31′6.6″N 122°41′49.2″W / 45.5185°N 122.697°W / 45.5185; -122.697Coordinates: 45°31′6.6″N 122°41′49.2″W / 45.5185°N 122.697°W / 45.5185; -122.697
Area:	less than one acre
Built:	1911
Architect:	Wade Hampton Pipes (partial)
Architectural style:	English Arts and Crafts
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	88000088[1]
Added to NRHP:	February 11, 1988

The Dr. Noble Wiley Jones House is a house located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of southwest Portland, Oregon. Built in 1911, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[2][3]

The house was built for Dr. Noble Wiley Jones and his wife, Nellie Sturtevant Jones. A graduate of Stanford and Rush Medical College (then affiliated with the University of Chicago), Jones studied medicine in Europe for several years before settling in Portland in 1906 as the city's first specialist in internal medicine.^[3][4][5] In 1913, he was hired as a Clinical Associate in Medicine at the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University) and is considered one of the leaders who helped increase the reputation of the fledgling institution.^[5]

Jones chose the location for the home at the corner of Market Street Drive and Vista Drive, adjacent to Tanner Creek Canyon, then spanned by Ford Street Bridge (later replaced by the Vista Bridge in 1926).^[3][6][7] The architect of the house is unknown; the garage, built ten years later, is known to have been designed by noted Portland architect Wade Hampton Pipes.^[3] The house is built in the English Arts and Crafts style favored by Pipes, but it differs from Pipes' usual style and is not thought to be his work.^[3]

Jones sold the house to his partner, Dr. Blair Holcomb, in 1927, and the house is sometimes called the Jones–Holcomb Residence. The house remains a private residence today.^[3]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Southwest Portland, Oregon

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
2. ^ "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. June 6, 2011. p. 35. http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf. Retrieved June 8, 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Dr. Noble Wiley Jones House". National Park Service. January 15, 1988. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/88000088.pdf. Retrieved June 20, 2011. 
4. ^ "Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies: Jones, M. D., Noble Wiley". USGWArchives.net. http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/jonesmd893gbs.txt. Retrieved June 20, 2011. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "From the Archives: Back to 1906 and Portland's first internist - Noble Wiley Jones". OHSU. http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/about/archives-1510.cfm. Retrieved June 20, 2011. 
6. ^ Prince, Tracy J. (2011). Portland's Goose Hollow. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 67. ISBN 9780738574721. http://books.google.com/books?id=YABWNNHirLIC&lpg=PP1&dq=isbn%3A9780738574721&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
7. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Vista Avenue Viaduct". National Park Service. March 30, 1984. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/84003093.pdf. Retrieved July 26, 2011.