This rare house by reknown architect John Yeon is one of a series of nine smaller houses that were built following the famous Watzek House in 1937 (NRHP 1975, National Historic Landmark 2011). This house was listed on the National Register in 2007 as the 'John Yeon Speculative House' with recognition for being the most original house remaining from that series. Constructed by master builder Burt Smith, who also built the Watzek House, the house is made of mature redwood lumber. The house features a modular design that incorporates large panes of fixed glass between exposed wooden mullions to create unfolding glass walls throughout the home with separate ventilation louvers. These glass walls mimic the effect of Japanese screen art and look out on many original landscaping features like rhododendron trees and an English Laurel garden wall in the back yard. The large block parquet floors throughout the house were also used by Yeon in the Asian Gallery at the Portland Art Museum. Only 14 of Yeon's house designs were ever built, though he's also credited for the Visitors Information Center (NRHP 2010) in downtown Portland, as well as several landscape architecture projects and interior galleries. You can learn more about the architect by visiting the website for the John Yeon Center for Architectural Studies at the University of Oregon.
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