Albert S. Sholes House

Built in 1909 (bungalow). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Sholes House, located in Cornelius, Oregon, is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Built in 1909, the bungalow was designed by Richard Martin Jr. for banker Albert Sholes.”
Wikipedia article Albert S. Sholes House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1909, bungalow, by Richard H. Martin Jr..

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sholes, Albert S., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1599 S. Alpine St., Cornelius, 97113
When was it listed? September 1982
Category. building
Census division. Forest Grove-Cornelius
When was it built? 1909
Architectural style. bungalow
Architect. Richard H. Martin Jr.
National Register reference number. 82003755 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Albert S. Sholes House: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hillsboro	Platinum	Occurrence	Stream Placer
Hillsboro Platinum Occurrence	PGE	Occurrence
Forest Grove Clay Products Co	Clay	Past Producer
Forest Grove Clay Products Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hergert Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Plant #2	Stone	Past Producer
Plant #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Willamette Industries-Hergert Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornelius, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2008	Funnel Cloud	Cornelius	-	Reported a funnel cloud that did not touch down. Report was called in to a local media outlet.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
John and Elsie Parsons House	1.1 miles	2005
Silas Jacob N. Beeks House	2.3 miles	1984
James D. Robb House	2.4 miles	1988
Benjamin Cornelius Jr. House	2.6 miles	1988
Painter's Woods Historic District	2.7 miles	2009
Alvin T. Smith House	2.7 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003755 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 51 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.