Donaldson Rowles House
Donaldson Rowles House | |
Location | North Ave., Challis, Idaho |
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Coordinates | 44°30′22″N 114°13′23″W / 44.50611°N 114.22306°WCoordinates: 44°30′22″N 114°13′23″W / 44.50611°N 114.22306°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1910 |
Built by | Rowles, Donaldson |
MPS | Challis MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 80001317[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 3, 1980 |
The Donaldson Rowles House, located on North Ave. in Challis, Idaho, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
The house is a log house built of sawn logs by Challis carpenter Donaldson Rowles (b.1885), who was son of Donaldson Rowles, a sheriff living in Challis in 1900. Its original plan, a lateral rectangle with a forward-facing ell, is similar to that of the Bill Chivers House, another NRHP-listed house in Challis. It had a dirt roof which was replaced in 1930 with sheet metal over round log purlins. It was expanded by Rowles in 1926 to add a kitchen and other rooms in board and batten and horizontal log lean-tos on the east and north sides.[2]
It is notable as an "owner-built example of late log architecture in Challis. The house represents the persistence of horizontal log construction into the twentieth century and the use of sawn logs, a rarity in Idaho log construction."[2]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Idaho State Historical Society Inventory: Donaldson Rowles House". National Park Service. 1980. Retrieved October 9, 2017. With photo from 1980.