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Photograph of John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 4
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John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 4

Built in 1954 (Northwest Regional style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 4 is a historic house in Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States. It is the fourth and final residence designed by architect Wade Pipes (1877-1961) for his friends John and Elizabeth Bates, and the penultimate and finest commission of his career.”

Wikipedia article John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 4, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1954, Northwest Regional style, by Wade Hampton Pipes.

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. Bates, John M. and Elizabeth, House No. 4 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 4101 South Shore Blvd., Lake Oswego, 97035
  • When was it listed? June 1990
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Wade Pipes Residences for John and Elizabeth Bates MPS
  • Census division. Northwest Clackamas
  • When was it built? 1954
  • Architectural style. Northwest Regional style, Arts and Crafts movement
  • Architect. Wade Hampton Pipes
  • National Register reference number. 90000832 - 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 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 4: 29 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oswego Iron MineIronPast Producer1867, 1894
Oswego Iron MineIronPast Producer
Durham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grahams PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grimms Fuel Co. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lake Oswego Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pynns Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Waluga ParkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Durham QuarryStonePast Producer
Grahams PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Oswego, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLake Oswego-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 30.2 miles1990
John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 20.2 miles1990
Clara and Samuel B. Weinstein House0.5 miles1992
Lake Oswego Hunt Club Ensemble0.9 miles1988
Shipley-Cook Farmstead1.5 miles2008
W. S. and Gladys Boutwell House1.8 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000832 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clackamas CountyAll 93 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.