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NPS Form 10-900-A 0MB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section Number: _7_ Page: _2_ Geneva-Minnesota Historic District, Medford, OR office conversion pattern while to the north, Sherman Street remains residential due to its lack of through access to either Crater Lake Avenue or Jackson Street, the next major north-south arterial. DEVELOPMENT PERIOD The area that would become the Geneva-Minnesota District was long used as agricultural lands beyond the eastern boundary of Medford. With the rapid expansion of the city's population in the 1900-1910 period, much of the area was annexed into the city proper and subdivided by real estate speculators into residential parcels. In September 1910 a group of landowners filed the first of the subject additions to the City of Medford. The "Humphrey-Knight" addition, comprising those lots with frontage along Geneva Street, was filed by William H. and L. Emma Humphrey and Clarence A. and Cora L. Knight, along with Henry and Elizabeth Humphrey (William's parents), W.H. and Margaret Canon, Mary E. Roberts, W.R. and Olive Bullock, and Lou D. Jones. Three months later W.H. and L. Emma Humphrey, along with Edward M. and Caddie L. Andrews, filed the "Humphrey-Andrews" addition, containing the lots facing Minnesota Street. Andrews, along with both the younger and elder Humphreys, was a real estate agent as well as a resident of the area. The 1910 census shows Andrews living at what is now 35 Crater Lake Avenue (Site 15) while the Humphrey family lived at 815 East Main (Site 1). In response to the rapid population growth that resulted from Medford's "Orchard Boom," the city undertook an extensive paving campaign in the 1909-1912 period. Funded by local property owner assessments, streets, water and sewer were the initial step in the many Eastside residential developments during this period. Following the dedication of right-of-way to the city for roads, the various individuals involved with the two subject additions petitioned the Medford City Council to pave and improve the Geneva-Minnesota area. In November 1910, the Medford City Council Minutes report the "Deed of Mr. Humphrey for parcel of land for street and road purposed was presented and read," documenting the creation of Geneva Street. 2 In May 1911, the Minnesota right-of-way was similarly granted to the City. 3 By April 1911 new sewer and resulted in the loss of frontage and the removal of many large trees, substantially impacting the formerly residential character of the portion of the district that faces this roadway. 2 Medford City Council Minutes, 18-November-1910. 3 Medford City Council Minutes, 3-May-1911.
NPS Form 10-900-A 0MB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section Number: _7_ Page: _3_ Geneva-Minnesota Historic District, Medford, OR water lines had been laid to the area and Geneva Street's "Brickolithic" paving had completed by the Bise and Foss Paving Company. 4 The design and construction of the Geneva Street roadbed served as a character defining feature that established the unique qualities of the area as distinct from the many other developments that occurred in Medford during the 1910-1912 boom period. Please refer to Site 39 for additional information. Augmenting the paving of Geneva Street itself are the extensive original site developments that provide a setting for the nominated structures themselves. Because of the fact that both Geneva avenue (sic) and Minnesota street were deep cut before being paved gives the lawns an excellent chance to be terraced and thus beauty is added not alone to the lawns but as well to the bungalows built on the surrounding lots. A cement retaining wall, one and a half feet high, will be put in at the sidewalk level and from that a four-foot terraced lawn will be built. B.F. Fifer has the contract for all of the Humphrey bungalows. 5 With only a single exception, all of the original retaining walls remain in use and clearly add to the distinctive character of the District. ARCHITECTURAL STYLES: Built in an area that was predominately open agricultural lands, only three of the nominated properties have been identified as pre-dating the original development period the Geneva- Minnesota District. Architecturally, the Chessmore-Andrews House (Site 15) represents a very elaborate example of the Stick or Eastlake Styles as utilized in rural farm residences of the late 19th Century. Site 17, the Sweet-Bullock House (c.1898) and Site 1, the Mann-Humphrey House (c.1910) are more vernacular in design. 4 "Paving Completed on Two Streets," Medford Sun, 4-April-1911, 1:1. 5 "East Medford is Awakening," Medford Mail Tribune, 31 -January-1911,6:1.
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