Paul C. Murphy House
Designed by Ellis F. Lawrence, the house has a floor plan of about 50 by 26 feet (15.2 by 7.9 m). Its interior has formal living spaces on the ground floor, bedrooms on the second floor, a full attic, and a basement with a family room and tiled fireplace. Rooms on the main floor include a central hall, living room, dining room, den, kitchen, pantry, half-bath, and sun porch. On the second floor are three bedrooms, a sleeping porch, and two bathrooms. The house has a separate servants' entrance at the rear and a servants' staircase leading to a bedroom, sewing room, and bathroom in the attic. The exterior features a hipped roof, multiple gables, small gabled dormers, and a glass-enclosed porch.
The home originally belonged to Paul Cole Murphy, a real-estate developer and president of the Ladd Estate Company, which was organized in 1908 to manage the properties of the locally prominent Ladd family. In 1909, Murphy and others bought a large property, Hazelfern Farm, from the Ladds and formed the Laurelhurst Company to develop Laurelhurst, a park-like residential neighborhood that includes the Murphy House. Murphy lived in this house until 1945, when he retired and moved to Santa Barbara.
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References
- ^ Portland Historic Landmarks Commission (July 2014), Historic Landmarks -- Portland, Oregon (XLS), retrieved August 20, 2014.
- ^ Minor, Kristen (August 16, 2018), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Laurelhurst Historic District (PDF), archived (PDF) from the original on November 20, 2020, retrieved May 13, 2022.
- ^ "Murphy, Paul C, House". Oregon Historic Sites Database. State of Oregon. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ^ Willingham, William F. (July 27, 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination: Murphy, Paul C., House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved June 12, 2011.