National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet

NPSForm10-900-A
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Continuation Sheet
OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86)
Section Number: _7_ Page: 36 Geneva-Minnesota Historic District, Medford, OR
constructed. Although the exact nature of the structure's role in establishing this neighborhood
character cannot be conclusively documented, the house clearly played an important role in
establishing the style of the Geneva-Minnesota District. The property has an intersecting gable roof
plan with a full-width hipped-roof front porch. Windows are 1/1 double hung intermixed with
casements, set in groupings of three. Window trim is the same idiosyncratic "hooded" design found
on 112 Geneva (Site 27), built at approximately the same time. Wide eaves and massive brackets,
with decorative notching of the rafter tails, typical features of the Craftsman Style, add to the
structure's character. A board and batten garage, matching that associated with 109 Geneva, is
located to the rear off the shared driveway.
First purchased from Clarence Knight by Zadie and G.W. Stephens in 1912,98 the subject property,
like the Steenstrup House next door, has had a number of owners and occupants. These included, in
1917, T.E. Daniels, a prominent entrepreneur and owner of "Daniels for Duds," a local men's
clothier and, from 1919 to the early 1920s, Mrs. William I. Vawter, widow of the founder of the
Jackson County Bank. In 1946 the property was sold to Allan and Janice Perry."
Despite its checkered occupancy, the Stephens-Vawter House retains considerable integrity to its
original design. As the earliest of the two-story Craftsman houses that characterize Geneva Street
structures, the house played an important role in defining the Geneva-Minnesota District, and
remains an important element of the district's significance.
ID No: 031
Historic Name: Edward & Margaret Davis House
Address: 101 Geneva
Architect:
Style: Craftsman
Year Built: 1912
Legal: 37S-1W-30AB, Tax Lot 15800
Humphrey-Knight Addn, Block 2, Lot(s) 4
Builder(s): Fifer, B.F.
Primary Contributing
The two-story Edward and Margaret Davis House is a wood frame structure with an extremely
shallow gable roof. The building has a small, offset, porch at the northeast corner and retains its
original shingle siding and decorative "cottage" style double hung windows. A matching gable-roof
garage is located to the rear of the popery, accessed via a concrete driveway shared with 35 Geneva
to the south. Mention of the construction of the Davis House was included in the March 1912 review
of C.A. Knight's activities on Geneva:
C.A. Knight is having concrete foundations put in for two eight-room
bungalows...both of which will have basements and furnaces will be put it.
98 Certificate of Title #1236,6-July-1912.
99 JCD 271:293.