PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —
A house built for a Portland lumber baron in 1937 that helped establish the modern Northwest Style has been designated a national historic landmark.
The Aubrey Watzek House, which is now part of the University of Oregon’s John Yeon Center for Architecture, was added to the list of historical landmarks on Wednesday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
Yeon was just a 26-year-old self-taught architect when he designed the house — his first project to actually be built.
Watzek initially didn’t like it, but decided to go ahead with it after rejecting another design by a different architect.
The house is on Skyline Boulevard in Southwest Portland and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974.
