2005-779-Ordinance No. 2005-028 Recorded 6/7/2005REVIEWED
LEGAL COUNSEL
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NANCY BLANKENSWIP, COUNTY CLERK 005 779
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
An Ordinance Amending Title 23, of the Deschutes
County Comprehensive Plan, adding the Agnes and ORDINANCE NO. 2005-028
Henry J. Sottong House and Barn to the List of
Historic Resources and correcting errors and
declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, Kimberly and Craig Ladkin, husband and wife, the owners of the property located at 60550
Tekampe Road, Bend applied on March 29, 2005 to Deschutes County Community Development Department to
add their house and barn to the County Comprehensive Plan Chapter 23.108.040, the Goal 5 Inventory of
Historic and Cultural Resources, and
WHEREAS, the application was referred to the Deschutes County Historical Landmarks Commission
for review and public hearing; and a staff report was written, and
WHEREAS, the Deschutes County Historical Landmarks Commission held a public hearing on
Thursday, April 21, 2005 and voted unanimously to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners add
the Agnes and Henry J. Sottong House and Barn to the County Comprehensive Plan Chapter 23.108.040, the
Goal 5 Inventory of Historic and Cultural Resources, and
WHEREAS, staff review of the list of designated cultural and historic resources found several minor
errors and it is in the best interest of the citizens of Deschutes County to correct those errors, now, therefore,
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, ORDAINS
as follows:
Section 1. AMENDMENT. Title 23, Section 108.040, of the Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan
is amended to read as described in Exhibit "A," attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein, with
new language underlined and language to be deleted in StFikethr-eugh.
Section 2. FINDINGS. The Board of Commissioners adopts as its findings in support of this
amendment the Recommendation and Findings of The Deschutes County Historical Landmarks Commission
dated April 22, 2005, attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein as Exhibit "B."
Domment Reproduces Poody
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Section 3. EMERGENCY. This ordinance being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist and this
ordinance takes effect on its passage.
DATED this� ±-- day of(��2005.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
' OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, 0 GON
j 01��U"U"'"'OUNTYO GOI
TOM DEWOL Chair
41ckNEL M. DALY, Commis ner
IS R. LUKE, Con'imissioner�
Date of 1 "Reading: day of 2005.
Date of 2 d Reading: day of 2005.
Record of Adoption Vote
Commissioner Yes No Abstained Excused
Michael M. Daly
Tom DeWolf
Dennis R. Luke
Effective date: day of 4���2005.
ATTEST:
r /1P 1,
Recording Secretary
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EXHIBmw,
Chapter 23.108. HISTORIC AND
CULTURAL
23.108.010. Historic and cultural.
23.108.020. Goals.
23.108.030.Polides.
23.108.040. Goal 5 Inventory - Historic
resources.
23.108.050. Sites with insufficient
infonnation.
23.108.010. Historic and cultural
A- Introduction. Deschutes County's rural
area represents a proud heritage of
exploration, settlement, and agriculture
as well as the experiences of
comniunities and people. Deschutes
County's countryside is a rich and
descriptive historical document. It tells
us how generations of people from vastly
different backgrounds adapted to and
exploited a land of lakes and rivers,
mountains and hills, forests and high
deserts. Buildings teach us valuable
lessons. They show us how and why the
area developed and what building
materials were available. The ways in
which they were constructed tell us about
their functions and the influence of the
land and elements. In addition to
buildings, significant information is
provided by rock shelters, cemeteries and
individual graves, stones, ranches, trails,
wagon train routes, islands, townsites,
milWtes, fish hatcheries, river crossings,
bridges and other unique resources.
On November 1, 1979, the Board of
County Commissioners adopted the
Deschutes County Year 2000
Comprehensive Plan, including goals and
policies for protection of historic
resources, identification and listing of
sites as "potential historic sites"; and
provisions that the County establish a
Historical Landnwks Commission and
adopt an ordinance to protect designated
historic sites. The approximateJy 140
potential historic sites identified in the
Comprehensive Plan resulted from
information provided by the Oregon
State Historic Presermflon Office and
from input provided by the County -
appointed Deschutes County Historic and
Cultural Areas Cifi= Advisory
Committee, and with help of the
Deschutes County Historical Society.
On September 17, 1980, the Board of
County Commissioners adopted
Ordinance PL -21, which established a
Historical Landmarks Commission, set
forth a designation process, and provided
for regulation of exterior alterations and
demolitions of designated structures and
landmarks. PL -21 was -subsequently
amended by Resolution 82-001 and
Ordinance 88-008. The ordinance
outlines designation of historic buildings,
sites and districts; standards and
Procedures for exterior alterations and
demolitions; reviews of redevelopment
and neighborhood improvement projects;
inventory processes; and other functions
and duties. Historic designation hearings
are held before the Historical Landmarks
Commission with linal action by the
Board ofCounty Commissioners.
In September 1981, Oregon
Administrative Rules, Chapter 660,
Division 16, established the 'Goal 5 Rule
for a wide variety of types of resources.
The Rule requires jurisdictions to
determine if a site is signifwmt; to
determine the location, quantity and
quality-, to identify conflicting uses and
their attendant economic, social,
environmental and wergy consequences,
analyzing them relative to the
consequences of protecting the -site as an
historic resource; and to develop a
program to achieve the Goal. The
Historic Preservation Ordinance
(Ordinance 88-008) was developed as the
Countys program
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From 1983 to 1985, the Historical
Landmarks Commission systeniaticaHy
evaluated nearly 300
within and outside the incorporated
cities. Of these, approximately one-half
were newly identified sites with little or
no previous information. Following a
public hearing before the Commission,
sites found to be significant were
recommended to the Board of County
Commissioners for historic designation.
In 1990, the Commission followed the
same process, reviewing over 100 sites in
the County and the three cities identified
as potential sites between 1983 and 1985.
Of 54 sites in the unincorporated area,
three were recommended for historic
designation.
Potential conflicting uses were identified
through discussions with property owners
during site visits. In addition, public
testimony at both hearings identified
potential conflicting uses. The analysis
required under Goal 5 was prepared by
Staff. Decisions regarding how each site
is to be protected were made by the
Cominission. Certain sites require
additional analysis regarding
significance, conflicting uses and other
requirements of Goal 5. The
Commission will conduct the analyses at
a later date.
On December 18, 1991, the Board of
County Commissioners held the initial
public hearing to consider designating
sites recommended by the Commission
under the Goal 5 Rule. On March 18,
1991, the Board designated those sites
found significant that lie within the
unincorporated area and outside of lands
managed by the United States Forest
Service and the Bureau of Land
Management.
C. Historic and cultural.
Historic and cultural areas are lands with
sites, structures or objects that have local,
regional, statewide or national historical
significance or refer to an area
characterized by evidence of an ethnic,
religious or social group with distinctive
traits, beliefs or social forms. Rapid
growth and the subsequent loss of such
sites and arms have made the protection
of this Countys important historic and
cultural resources of significance locally.
The program and policies recommended
by the Historic and Cultural Cid4en!s
Advisory Committee received support
and approval throughout the committee
reviews and public hearings and -changed
little during the planning process.
Based upon the following findings:
I . Public awareness of our history and
CUltUrdl background has been and
will continue to be an inpxUnt
source of knowledge, pride,
education and enjoyment for this and
firture generations.
2. Rapid growth and development make
it in4)mtive that the County's
historic and cultural resowces be
identified and protected.
3. Lack of private owner incentive for
preservation has led to historic site
deterioration or loss.
4. Inventorying, assessment and
recording of historic and cultural
resources are an ongoing process
which must be kept currerit,
particularly in the face of rapid
growth and development.
5. Properly preserved and utilized
historical or cultural 9mourm
enhance the economy of the area.
6. There exist State and Federal laws
which protect cultural nsources from
disturbance or distraction and in light
of the chosen alternative which seeim
to enhance cultural amenities as well
as housing policies encouraging
housing rehabilitation, the citizens
committee accepted the
recommended goal.
(Ord. 2002-005 § 1, 2002; Ord. 2000-017 J 1,
2000; Ord. 94-006 §§ I and 2,1994; Ord. 92-
018,1992,PL-20,1979)
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23.108.020. Goals.
I . To preserve and protect historic and
cultural resources of Deschutes
County -
2. To achieve the identified goal a
number of policies were developed.
These policies reflect concerns that
there be a specific agency
responsible for protecting historic
and cultural resources and that the
agency's specific authority and duties
needed to be identified. Also, that
appropriate means by which the new
agency, the cities and the County
could protect the resources had to be
found.
(Ord. 2002-005 § 1, 2002; Ord. 2000-017 § 1,
2000; Ord. 94-006 §§ I and 2,1994; Ord. 92-
018,1992, PL -20,1979)
23.108.030. Policies.
1. A joint Cities/County Mstorical
Landrimics Commission shall be
created by the incorporated cities and
Deschutes County. The joint
conunission is meant to assure
greater coordination in regard to
identilymg historical and cultural
resources, protecting those resources,
being fully representative of the
various communities, serving in an
advisory capacity to all local
governing bodies and their agents, as
well as promoting greater efficiency
and better information in protecting
the resources. The duties of the
comnission would be to:
a. Create a local register and
priority value for historic and
cultural resources of the County.
b. Review applications for
designation of historical sites.
c. Advise governing bodies on
ordinances and permits for
demolition or alteration of
historic or archeological sites.
d. Advise and help resolve land use
conflicts affecting such
resources.
e. Devise standards for historical
markers.
2. Preservation of historic and cultural
sites of high priority rating or that
have been identified on the
Deschutes County Inventory of
Historical Places should take
precedence over other developmental
uses.
3. Emphasis shall be on presei-vation of
the exterior appearance of historic
buildings. Interior modifications and
exterior changes compatible with the
continued maintenance of the historic
appearance of the structure shall be
approved upon such findings of
compatibility by the Historic
Landmarks Commission.
4. Plans for the protection of an
identified historic or cultural site
shall be submitted to the Historic
Landmarks Commission for approval
with any application for subdivision
or development of such site or area.
5. Incentives should be developed to
encourage private preservation and
utilization of historical resources.
6. Redevelopment, Neighborhood
Improvement Projects and other
similar mechanisms shall be
encouraged for areas of significant
historical or architectural interest.
7. If funding is available, the County
shall complete the Goal 5 process
required for the Turnalo Grange,
Terrebonne Grange, Central Oregon
Irrigation District (numerous
locations), and Rock 01 the Range
Bridge sites in acconlance with OAR
660-16 by the end of the 1994-95
State 11istoric Preservation Office
grant period.
(Ord. 2002-005 § 1, 2002; Ord. 2000-017 § 1,
2000; Ord. 94-006 §§ I and 2,1994; Ord. 92-
018,1992, Ord. 80-203,1980; PL -20,1979)
23.108.040. Goal 5 Inventory - Historic
resources.
I - Alfalfa Grange: Grange building and
==unity center, built in 1930,
located on Willard Road, Alfalfa. 17-
14-26. TL 400.
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2. Allen Ranch Cemetery: Oldest
cemetery in Deschutes County. 30'
by 40' fenced cemetery plot.
Situated 100 yards west of South
Century Drive, one-half mile south
of Road 42. Two marble
gravestones, two wooden markers.
20-11-7 TL 1300.
3. Fall River Fish Hatchery "Ice
House: The hatchery -ice House,
dates from the beginning of fishery
management in Oregon, circa 1920.
It is an 18 foot by 18 foot
improvement, the only original
building remaining on the property,
and the only sigaificant building or
structure on the site. Located at
15055 S. Century Drive, EY2; NEY4;
Section 32, Township 20S, Range 10
E, Tax Lot 100. (Ordinance 94-006
§1, 1994).
4. Long Hollow Ranch — Black Butte:
Headquarters complex of historic
ranch, located on Hohnes Road in
Lower Bridge area, including
headquarters house, ranch
commissary, equipment shed, barn
and bunkhouse. 14-11 -1 TL 101.
5. Swamp Ranch — Black Butte: The
present day site of the Black Butte
Ranch was part of the vast holdings
of the Black Butte Land and
Livestock Company in 1904. No
buildings from the period exist. 14-
9-10A, 1013, 15B, 15C, 16A, 21A,
21 B, 21 C, 22A, 22B.
6. Brothers School: Only one -room
schoolhouse currently in use in
Deschutes County, located on
Highway 20 in Brothers. 20-18-00
TL 3200.
7. Bull Creek Dam The Bull Creek
Darn, a component of the Turnalo
Irrigation Project was constructed in
1914 to form a water storage
reservoir to increase the amount of
irrigated acreage at Tumalo. It is a
gravity type of overflow dam. Two
cut off walls are extended into solid
formation, one at the upper toe and
the other at the lower toes of the
concrete dam. The dam proper is
about 17 feet high fivin the
foundation, although the completed
structure is about 25 feet. Located
on Turnalo Reservoir -Market Road.
16-11-33 TL 2700 SW -V4; SW -V4.
8. Bull Creek Dam Bridge (Tumalo
Irrigation Ditch Bridge): Built in
1914, the bridge, which spans the
darn, consists of five continuous
filled spandrel, barrel -type concrete
dock arch spans, each 25 feet long.
The concrete piers are keyed into
notches in the arch structuiv. The
structure is the oldest bridge in
Deschutes County. On Turnalo
Reserve -market Road. 16-11-33 TL
2700/ SW -V4; SW -V4.
9. Camp Abbot Site, Officers' Club:
Officers' Club for former military
camp, currently identified as Great
Hall in Sunriver and used as a
meeting hall. 20-11 -513 TL 112.
10. Camp Polk Cemetery: One of the
last reniaining pioneer cemeteries,
located off Camp Polk Road near
Sisters. The site is composed of a
tract of land, including gravestones;
and memorials, containing 2.112
acres in the Southwest Quarter of the
Southeast Quarter of Section 27,
Township 14 South, Range 10
E.W.M., TL 2100, described as
follows:
Beginning at a point North 20
degrees 06' 20" West 751 feet from
the comer common to Sections 26,
27, 34 and 35 in Township 14 South
Range 10 E.W.M. and running
thence South 88 degrees 30' West
460 feet; thence North I dWw 30'
East 460 feet; thence South I degree
30' 200 feet to the point of
beginning.
11. Camp Polk Military Post Site: One
a the oldest military sites in
Deschutes County, located on Carrip
Polk Cemetery Road. Site includes
entire tax lots, listed as follows 14-
10-34 TL 100, 300.
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12. Cline Falls Power Plant: Early
hydropower site on the Deschutes
River, located off Highway 126 on
White Rock Road. west of Redmond.
Site includes dam, penstock and
powerhouse. 15-12-14 TL 901.
13. Cloverdale School: One -room
school building in Cloverdale,
located near 68515 George Cyrus
Road. First building built in
Cloverdale. 15-11-7 TL 600.
14. Eastern Star Grange: Grange hall for
earliest grange organized in
Deschutes County, located at 62850
Powell Butte Road. 17-13-19 TL
1900.
15. Enoch Cyrus Homestead Hay Station
and Blacksmith Shop: The Enoch
Cyrus Homestead was the ongmal
homestead of Oscar Maxwell, built
in 1892 and purchased in 190 by
Enoch Cyrus. Important stagelstore
stop for early travelers. The
homestead house, including a back
porch and cistem, and the
Blacksmith Shop are designated. 15-
11-IOTL700.
16. Fremont Meadow: A small natural
meadow on Turnalo, Creek in Section
34, Township 17 South, Range I I
East, lying within Shevlin Park. TL
5900. Campsite for 1843 Fremont
expedition. 17-11-34 TL 5900.
17. Harper School: One -room
schoolhouse, located west of South
Century Drive, south of Sunriver, at
the femer feweske of HmpeF,
moved halfway between the Allen
Ranch and the Vandevert Ranch
from the former townsite of H
20-11-17 TL 1900.
18. Improved . Order of Redmond
Cemetery: Eady Historic
cemetery used by residents of La
Pine/Rosland area. Located on
Forest Road 4270, east of Highway
97. A 40 -acre parcel described as:
The Southwest one-quarter of the
Southeast one-quarter (SW -Y4; SE -V4)
Section 7, Township 22 south, Range
11, East of the Willamette Meridian,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
19. Laidlaw Bank and Thist: One of the
few remainingcommercial buildings
from the community of Laidlaw,
located at 64697 Cook Avenue,
Tumalo. 16-12-3 1 A TL 2900.
20. La Pine Commercial Club: Building
was built in 1912 as a community
center, serving as a regular meeting
place for civic organizations and
occasionally served as a church. One
of the oldest and continuously used
buildings in La Pine. Located at
51518 Morrison Street, La Pine. 22-
10-1 5AA TL 4600.
2 1. Lynch and Roberts Store
Advertisement: Ad advertising sign
painted on a soft volcanic ash
surface. Only area example of early
advertising on natural material.
Lynch and Roberts established
mercantile in Redmond in 1913.
Roberts Field near Redmond was
named for J. R. Roberts. Site
includes the bluff. 14-12-00 TL
1,501.
22. MastonCemetery: Oneoftheoldest
cemeteries in County. Oldest nwiK4
grave marker is 1901. About one-
half mile from site of Maston
Sawmill and Homestead. Site
includes the gravestones and
memorials and the entire tax lot,
identified as 22-09-00 TL 1800.
23. George Millican Ranch and Mill
Site: Ranch established in 1886.
We]] dug at or near that date.
Remains of vast cattle ranching
empire. 19-15-33 TLs 100, 300.
24. George Millican Townsite: Town
established 1913. Site includes store
and garage buildings, which retain
none of the architectural integrity
from era. 19-15-33 TL'500.
25. Petersen Rock Gardens: The
Petersen Rock Gardens consist of
stone replicas and structures �cFected
by Rasmus Petersen. A residence
house and museum are part of the
site. The site has been a tourist
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attraction for over 60 years. Located
at 7930 SW 77h, Redmond. Site
includes entire tax lot. 16-12-11 TL
400.
26. Pickett's Island: After originally
settling in Crook County, Marsh
Awbrey moved to Bend and then
homesteaded on this island in the
Deschutes River south of Tumalo.
The site was an early ford for
pioneers. Located in Deschutes
River near Tumalo State Park. 17-
12-6 NE-V4TL 100. Portion between
Deschutes River and Old Bend Road
is designated.
27. Rease (Paulina Prairie
Cemetery: Historic cemetgy on
Elizabeth Victoria Castle Rease and
Denison Rease's homestead.
Earliest known gave is of their son,
Gg"r e Guy Rease, born in 1879,
who was also a homesteader on
Paulina Prairie. George Guy Rease,
died of smaflRgx on the Caldwell
Ranch on May 2,1903. CemeteFy4s
an-ear4y (1914) piefteer- eefnetMe
with moey graves, bet -ar--e
eleoily w"ked. Other known
burials are William HM Caldwell,
1841 -October 15. 1910, died on the
Caldwell Ranch of iWuries sustained
on a cattle drive: Melvin RaRer,
1892-1914, died in a tent of
tuberculosis: Addie Laura Caldwell,
1909- -November 16. 1918, died of
the Spanish influenza Videmic: and
Emma Ninrtz Deedon. 1886=A-Rril
15, 1915, died of cgWlications
from a pregnancy. There are several
unmarked mves. Saffetmdiag
pmpeoy is U.9 -F -S- The cemetery
is a cofflty-owned one -acre
parcel on the north edge of Paulina
Prairie. two miles east of Hi
97. 210-11-29, SE -Y4; NW -V4 TL
99.
28. Terrebonne Ladies Pioneer Club:
The Club was organized in 1910.
The building has been a community -
meeting place since 1911. Located
at 8334 11 " Street, Tarebonne. 14-
13-16DC TL 700.
29. ToJrew Tetherow House &-and
Crossing: Sit-i's-e-p—qWdumedd an
excellent example ofearly Deschutes
River Fi,.w crossing site. Major route
from Santiarn Wa
Zon Road diAde te
Greek Geunty g Prineville. ToArew
Tetherow House was built in 1878.
The Tetherows pWrated a toll bridge,
store and liy= stable for travelers.
Oldest house and el" eeminuem
eeetipied hease in County. An app!
tme plawed by T-Wimew ww meem!
destm . Site includes house and
entire tax lot. 14-12-36A TL 45M.
30. Tumalo Creek - ]Diversion Dam and
Headgate of Feed Canal:
Constructed in 1914, the Feed
Canal's purpose was toconvey water
from Tumalo Creek to the reservoir.
The headworks of the Feed Canal
consist of a low overflow weir dain,
94.2 feet in length. The entire
structure is of reinforced concrete.
17-11 -00 TL 5900.
31. Tumalo Cominunity Church: The
building is the oldest church in the
County, built in 1905. It Stan& in
the former town of Laidlaw, laid out
in 1904. Located at 64671 Bruce
Avenue, Turnalo. 16-12-31A TL
3900.
32. Tumalo Project Dam: Concrete core,
earth -filled dam 75 fee high. First
project by State of Oregon to use
State monies for reclamation project.
On Tumalo Creek. 16-11-29.
33. William P. Vandevert Ranch
Homestead House: The Vandevert
Ranch House stands on the east bank
of the Little Deschutes River at
17600 Vandevert Road near
Sunriver. The honnstead was
established in 1892, and has been
recently relocated and renovated.
Oldest homestead in the County.
Vandevert family history in the area
spans 100 years. 20-11 -00 TL 1900.
34. Kathryn Grace Clark Vandevert
Grave: Kathryn Grace Vandevert,
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daughter of William P. Vandevert,
died of influenza during the epidemic
of 1918. Her grave is located across
a pasture due south of the Vandevert
House, 50 feet east of the Little
Deschutes River. Site includes
gravestone and fenced gravesite
measuring is approximately 15 feet
by 25 feet. 20-11 -00 U 1900.
35. Young School: Built in 1928, it is an
excellent example of a rural "one-
roonf' school which served
homesteaders of the 1920s. Located
on Butler Market Road. 17-13-19
TL 400.
36. Inventory note: UrJess otherwise
indicated the inventozied site
includes only the designated
structure. No impact areas have been
designated for any inventoried site or
structure.
37. Agnes Mae Allen SottonL7 and
Hg= J. Sottong House and Barn.
House and barn are
constructed with lumber milled on
the "o = in a Rqrtable sawmill run b
the Pine
Forest Lumber Cg-npany in 1911.
Hq= was awarded homestead patent
7364 issued at
The Dalles on Dec 1. 1904. Hoa
was pLesident of the Mountain States
Fox Farm. A
flume on the Arnold Irrigation
District is named the Sottong Flume.
The structures
also associated with William Kuhn,
a pLesident of the Arnold Iniga-tion
District: Edward
and MuZaret Uffelman, who were
Rart of the Up-uR that Lnvatized and
develgRed th
Hoo Doo Ski Resort: and Frank
Rust Gilchrist, son of the founder of th
town of Gilchrist and Gilchrist Mill
and president of & Gilchrist Timber
Co rom the time of his
=W f
father's death in 1956 to 1988.
Frank R. Gilchrist served on the Qmgo—n
Board of
FgE= under four ggyernors and
was gpRgmted by the ggyernors to serve
as a member
of the Oreeon Parks -and Recreation
Advis= Committee. He served on the
Qmgon S
Universi1y's Forest Products
Research Lab and was a director and
pLesident of the
national Forest Products
Association. T18 R12 Section 22. 00
Tax lot 01600.
(Ord. 2005-028 § 1, 2005; Ord. 2002-005 § 1,
2002; Ord. 2000-017 § 1, 2000; Ord. 94-006
H I and 2, 1994; Ord. 92-018, 1992, PL -20,
1979)
23.108.050. Sites with insufficient
infonnation.
Central Oregon Irrigation District -
numerous locations; Ten-ebonne Grange - 14-
13-16DC TL 700 (south half); Rock 01 the
Range Bridge- Bowery Land where it crosses
the Swalley Canal; Tumalo Gninge - 16-12-
31A TL 3900.
(Ord. 2002-005 § 1, 2002; Ord. 2000-017 § 1,
2000; Ord. 94-006 §§ I and 2,1994; Ord. 92-
0 18, 1992, PL -20, 1979)
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DESCHUTES COUNTY HISTORICAL LANDMARKS COMMISSION
Des Chutes Historical Center, 129 N.W. Idaho Avenue, Bend, Oregon 97701
Phone: (541) 388-7927 Fax: (541) 385-1764
Patk(a-)-co.deschutes.or.us
Date:
File number:
RECOMMENDATION AND FINDINGS
April 22, 2005
HLA -052
Applicants/ Owners: Kimberly S. and Craig K. Ladkin
Request: Amendment to the County Comprehensive Plan Chapter
23.108.040. Goal 5 Inventory — Historic and Cultural Resources, to
add the following historic resource: Agnes and Henry J. Sottong
House and Barn.
Historic Name: Agnes and Henry J. Sottong House and Barn
Address: 60550 Tekampe Road, Bend 97702
Built: House and barn ca 1911
Location: T18 R12 Section 22, 00 Tax lot 01600
Historic Status: None
Public Hearing: Thursday, April 21, 2005, 6:30 p. m.
Des Chutes Historical Center
Zone: Exclusive Farm Use, Tumalo/Redmond/Bend Zone
SMIA- Surface Mining Impact Area Combining Zone
Current Use: Residence, barn, pond, farm
Criteria: County Code 2.28.100. Historical designation criteria.
OAR 660-023-0200 Historic Resources
Staff: Pat Kliewer, Associate Planner, Historic and Cultural Resources
RECOMMENDATION: Approval
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CRITERIA and FINDINGS
2.28.100. Historical designation criteria.
A. The evaluation and designation of historical districts, buildings and/or structures and sites
shall be based on the following criteria:
1 . The factors listed on the County landmarks commission rating sheet, a copy of which
is set out in Appendix A at the end of DCC 2.28;
2. Economic, social, environmental and energy (ESEE) consequences of designation, as
set forth in the rules of the Department of Land Conservation and Development, OAR
660-16, a copy of which is set out in Appendix B at the end of DCC 2.28.
(Ord. 95-027 § 1, 1995; Ord. 88-008 § 6, 1988)
NOTE: Section 2 above is outdated and is no longer required by OAR 660-023-0200.
FINDING:
Appendix "A"
RATING 36
BUILDING/STRUCTURE Henry J. and Agne'
House s Sottona/Frank R. and Helen Gilchrist
LOCATION 60550 Tekampe Road
TOWN/VICINITY Bend
EVALUATOR Pat Kliewer
DATE April 12,2005
Scoring on Scale of 1-5
5 – Excellent
4 - Very Good
3 - Good
2 - Fair
1 - Poor
0 - Non-existent
DESCHUTES COUNTY LANDMARKS COMMISSION RATING SHEET
Factors
Relative
Weighted
1 - Interpretive Potential: Property is associated with historic
Importance
3.0 x 4
Ratinq
or famous events, is related to the broad cultural history of
the nation, state or community, or is included on the National
Register of Historic Places.
2. Rarity of type and/or Style: Property represents a peri6d--
2. 0 � —4—
or style of architecture or method of construction of
extraordinary or unusual design, detail, materials, or
craftsmanship; or is identified as the work of an architect,
designer or master builder whose work has influenced
development in the nation, state or community.
3. Identification: Property is identified with a person or
1.5 x 5
7.5
persons who have significantly contributed to the history of
-the City or County.
4. Symbolic Value: Property is identified as a unique object—
1.5 _x—
3
4.5
representing an aesthetic or educational feature of the
community, or has contributed to the cultural or economic
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history of the area.
5. Chronology: Property was developed early in the relative
1.0 x 4
scale of local history or was an early expression of a type or
style of structure or development.
TOTALS
36
OAR 660-023-0200
Historic Resources
(1) For purposes of this rule, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Designation" is a decision by a local government declaring that a historic resource is
"significant" and including the resource on the list of significant historic resources.
(b) "Historic areas" are lands with buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts that have
local, regional, statewide, or national historic significance.
(c) "Historic resources" are those buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts that have a
relationship to events or conditions of the human past.
(d) "Historic resources of statewide significance" are buildings, structures, objects, sites, or
districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and within approved national
register historic districts pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (PL 89-
665; 16 U.S.C. 470).
(e) "Protect" means to require local government review of applications for demolition,
removal, or major exterior alteration of a historic resource.
(2) Local governments are not required to amend acknowledged plans or land use
regulations in order to provide new or amended inventories or programs regarding historic
resources, except as specified in this rule. The requirements of the standard Goal 5 process
(see OAR 660-023-0030 through 660-023-0050) in conjunction with the requirements of this
rule apply when local governments choose to amend acknowledged historic preservation
plans and regulations. However, the sequence of steps in the standard process is not
recommended, as per section (3) of this rule. The provisions in section (3) of this rule are
advisory only. Sections (4) through (9) of this rule are mandatory for all local governments,
except where the rule provides recommended or optional criteria.
(3) Local comprehensive plans should foster and encourage the preservation, management,
and enhancement of structures, resources, and objects of historic significance within the
jurisdiction in a manner conforming with, but not limited by, the provisions of QRS 358.605.
In developing local historic preservation programs, local governments should follow the
recommendations in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Archeology
and Historic Preservation. Where possible, local governments should develop a local
historic context statement and adopt a historic preservation plan and a historic preservation
ordinance before commencement of local historic inventories.
(4) Local governments shall provide broad public notice prior to the collection of information
about historic resources. Local governments shall notify landowners about opportunities to
participate in the inventory process. Local governments may delegate the determination of
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significant historic sites to a local planning commission or historic resources commission.
The determination of significance should be based on the National Register Criteria for
Evaluation or the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Evaluation.
FINDING:
The owners of the subject property are the applicants. The local government did not initiate
this action; the owners initiated it. Public notice of the public hearings before the Deschutes
County Historical Landmarks Commission on April 21, 2005 was mailed to the applicant and
to all property owners within 500 feet of the subject property and was published in the legal
notice section of the Bend Bulletin Newspaper on April 9, 2005. A legal notice announcing
the pubic hearings before the Board of County Commissioners on May 25, 2005 and June 8,
2005 was published in the Bend Bulletin Newspaper on May 11, 2005. Appendix "A" of the
County's Historic Preservation Code is based on the National Register Criteria. The
application was heard by the Deschutes County Historical Landmarks Commission, a
Certified Local Government, appointed by the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners.
Therefore, these Criteria are met.
(5) Local governments shall adopt or amend the list of significant historic resource sites
(i.e., "designate" such sites) as a land use regulation. Local governments shall allow owners
of inventoried historic resources to refuse historic resource designation at any time prior to
adoption of the designation and shall not include a site on a list of significant historic
resources if the owner of the property objects to its designation.
FINDING:
The owners are requesting the resource designation
Therefore, these criteria are met.
(6) The local government shall allow a property owner to remove from the property a historic
property designation that was imposed on the property by the local government.
FINDING:
N/A
(7) Local governments are not required to apply the ESEE process in order to determine a
program to protect historic resources. Rather, local governments are encouraged to adopt
historic preservation regulations regarding the demolition, removal, or major exterior
alteration of all designated historic resources. Historic protection ordinances should be
consistent with standards and guidelines recommended in the Standards and Guidelines for
Archeology and Historic Preservation published by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
FINDING:
Appendix A meets this criteria.
Therefore, this criterion is met.
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(8) Local governments shall protect all historic resources of statewide significance through
local historic protection regulations, regardless of whether these resources are "designated"
in the local plan.
FINDING:
N/A
(9) A local government shall not issue a permit for demolition or modification of a historic
resource described under subsection (6) of this rule for at least 120 days from the date a
property owner requests removal of historic resource designation from the property.
FINDING:
N/A
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183 & ORS 197
Stats. Implemented: ORS 197,040 & ORS 197.225 - ORS 197.245
Hist.: LCDC 2-1996, f. 8-30-96, cert. ef. 9-1-9-6
Interviews for Staff Report
1 . Mrs. Vernon D. Pritchard, 20965 Sholes Road, moved on Tekampe Homestead in
1963.
2. Louise Tekampe Hamby, 1254 NW Portland Ave., Bend, 97701, Uncle owned
Tekampe Homestead and ranched next to Sottongs. Her parents were Herman and
Elizabeth Tekampe.
3. Margaret Uffelman, Sublimity, Oregon (503) 769-2137, owned property from 1949-
1955.
4. Janet Ford, formerly Mrs. Jim Garrett; 3321 32nd Street, San Diego, California 92104;
(415) 459-5652, owned property from 1973-1977.
5. Craig and Kimberly Ladkin, applicants, moved to Sottong property in 2001.
6. Maylon Couch, Bend, 383-2264, took horse to Sottong's fox farm for fox food.
7. Bob Zosel, historian, Wadena, Minnesota, (218) 631-3619.
8. Elizabeth Wendlandt, research librarian, Genealogical Forum of Oregon, Portland,
(503) 963 1932
Sources of factual information
1 . Property Records for subject property from 1906 to present in Deschutes County
Clerk's office.
2. Mortgage Records for Sottongs from 1900 through 1939, in Deschutes County
Clerk's office.
3. Pilot Butte Cemetery Burial List
4. Bend Bulletin Articles and Obituaries for Sottongs, Uffelmans, and Gilchrists: Dec.
13, 1940; Dec. 17, 1940; Jan 8, 1949; Jan. 11, 1949; April 4, 1956; April 13,
1970;July 29, 1978; Feb. 26, 1991; Feb. 27, 1991; Feb. 11, 2003
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5. A History of the Deschutes County In Oregon, The Deschutes County Historical
Society, 1985- Information on Arnold Irrigation District
6. Klamath Country History, Klamath County Historical Society, 1984- Information on
Town of Gilchrist, Gilchrist Mill and Gilchrist family.
7. US Census Records for Crook County, Oregon, 1900.
8. US Census Records for Crook County, Oregon, 1910
9. US Census Records for Deschutes County, Oregon 1920.
10. US Census Records for Multnomah County, Oregon, 1910
11 - US Census Records for Wadena County, Minnesota, 1900
12. US Census Records for Wadena County, Minnesota, 1910
13. Polk's City Directories for Bend and Vicinity from 1917 to 1975, for Sottongs,
Uffelmans, Stenkamps, Mowrys, Kuhns, and Gilchrists.
14. Deschutes County Circuit Court Probate Case # 1000 for Agnes Sottong, 1941.
15. Deschutes County Property Tax Lists: Sottongs, Stenkamps, Trotters.
16. Irrigation Development in Oregon's Upper Deschutes River Basin 1871-1957, A
Historic Context Statement, Michael Hall, 1994.
17. Multnomah County, Oregon Marriage Records Volume 29, page 429.
SIGNIFICANCE
This property is significant for its association with the following owners:
1 - Henry H. Sottong, a 1 9th Century homesteader in Crook County and president of
Mountain States Fox Farm,
2. William, Joseph and Henry Stenkamp, brothers who were one of the sets of brothers
that the community of Brothers was named after,
3. William Kuhn, a president of the Arnold Irrigation District,
4. Edward and Margaret Uffelman, who were part of the group that privatized and
developed the Hoo Doo Ski Resort, and
5. Frank R. Gilchrist, son of the founder of the town of Gilchrist and Gilchrist Mill and
president of the Gilchrist Timber Company from the time of his father's death in 1956
to 1988.
This house and barn are significant because they were constructed with lumber milled on
the subject land in 1911 and are rare examples of the early homestead period. The barn
may be the largest barn surviving from that period of history in Deschutes County.
The property is significant for its association with the homestead period in Crook County.
(These structures were constructed before Deschutes County was formed. Deschutes
County was carved from Crook County in 1916.)
Property Description
Location
The property is in an area of farms southeast of Bend at Township 18 Range 12 Section 22.
A lateral of the Arnold Irrigation District crosses the property.
The subject property includes 19.38 acres on north side of Tekampe Road, at the corner of
Sholes Road. Tekampe Road is paved to the property from Knott Road. Beyond its
intersection with Sholes Road, Tekampe Road is graveled. Until recently, it was a narrow
dirt road. Mrs. Louise Hamby says that when she visited her uncle Tekampe's farm, they
had to drive through two ditches that crossed Tekampe Road that usually had water in them,
an event that was always challenging.
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The subject property is relatively level property with good soil and no rock outcroppings. All
of the land is irrigated. An irrigation pond is near the center of the property. A cistern
formerly stood near the road and barn.
Groups of mature pine trees dot the landscape, remnants of the forest which covered the
area when the settlers arrived in the first decade of the twentieth century. Three trees that
are more than 80 feet tall are near the barn. The land is fenced and cross fenced.
Zone
Exclusive Farm Use/ Tumalo/Redmond/Bend
Surface Mining Impact Area Combining Area
Historic Context
Homesteads in Section 21, Township 18S, Range 12E were awarded in The Dalles.
In chronological order, they are as follows:
1. Oregon State, Feb 7, 1898, Patent # 13
2. Henry J. Sottong, Dec 1, 1904, Patent # 7364
3. George Brosterhous, March 28, 1906, Patent # 8155
4. Oregon State, May 22, 1908, Patent # 24
Homesteads in Section 22, Township 18S, Range 12E were all awarded in The Dalles. In
chronological order, they are as follows:
1 . Della M. Palmer, Dec. 1, 1904, Patent #7355
2. Cora E. Boyer, Dec 1, 1904, Patent # 7356
3. Galusha 0. Cross, Dec. 1, 1904, Patent #7362
4. Henry J. Sottong, Dec. 1, 1904, Patent # 7364
5. George Brosterhous, March 28, 1906, Patent # 8155
6. Glenn H. Slack, July 26, 1909, Patent# 01874213
7. Ivan V. McGillvray, Feb. 26, 1920, Patent # 015913
The subject parcel is part of Henry J. Sottong's homestead. Henry J. Sottong, of Wadena,
Minnesota, homesteaded 160 acres in 1899 in what was then Crook County. The nearest
town was Prineville. He proved up his claim by building a cabin, clearing 20 acres and living
on the property a few months out of each year. He visited Crook County early enough to
select flat land with good soil. It was covered with mature pine trees that would provide a
source of building materials and income when sold.
He was awarded the patent to the 160 acre homestead in 1904. This was one year before
Bend became a city. In 1900 there were 21 people in the vicinity of the Farewell Bend
Ranch. In 1900 the railroad connected Shaniko (80 miles away) to The Dalles and all points
east and west, making travel to and from Minnesota a little more convenient. The horse
drawn stage service brought people from Shaniko to Prineville and then connected to
Klamath Falls and Burns. At the time Henry claimed his land, timber lands were being
bought up by Midwest timber companies. Cattle and sheep grazed on the open range and
on remote ranches. Bend became a city in 1905. The railroad arrived in Bend in 1911.
Henry J. Sottong was married in October, 1911 in Portland, two days after the railroad
arrived in Bend, and brought his bride Agnes to his homestead in Bend. Up to that time,
Henry traveled back and forth to Wadena, Minnesota. He is listed on the US Census in
Wadena, Minnesota in both 1900 and 1910.
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In 1911, Henry contracted with E. A. Griffin of the Pine Forest Lumber Company to bring a
portable sawmill to his property. Ernest A. Griffin and his wife Tulla lived adjacent to the
Softongs on Tekampe Road. Sottong gave the Lumber Company two years to log the
property and cut the logs into lumber. The Lumber Company also logged the surrounding
properties owned by the Tekampes and Trotters.
The sawmill on the Sottong property produced lumber for the surrounding property owners.
With that lumber, the Tekampes constructed their farm buildings and a two -room house. The
Sottongs built their house and barn. The Tekampe's 1912 ranch hand's house and rock
food -storage building still stand on the Pritchard land on Sholes Road.
A story told by Louise Tekampe Hamby says that bears frequented the area. Her
grandfather shot a young bear on the ranch, stuffed it, and placed it up in a tree for decades
to scare people.
The Sottong House replaced his cabin and was built in 1911-1912 by Henry Sottong. The
Sottong's house and barn still stand. Many contractors have commented on the excellent
quality of the lumber in the structures.
On March 18, 1912, Henry entered into a contract with the Overturf -Davis -Miller Company
with H. J. Overturf, President and H. A. Miller, secretary, to sell "all the sawed lumber of
every dimension and description in stock in the lumber yard at the sawmill of the Pine Forest
Lumber Company" located on his property. This sale secured a note of $3,500 dated March
7, 1912 to the order of Henry J. Sottong, due on or before April 1, 1912 with 8% interest.
The Arnold Irrigation District was formed in 1904. Deschutes River water rights were filed in
1905. The construction of the 22 -foot wide gates in the irrigation headworks and water
delivery system began in 1905. L. D. Wiest, civil engineer, provided his services. Most of
the work on the flume and canal was done by shareholders, including Henry. The wooden
flume was 5,500 feet long, 12 feet wide, and three feet deep. The canal was 12 feet wide
and three feet deep. In the first 14 miles, there were six other wooden flumes ranging from
250 to 879 feet long. They were known by the following names: Sottong, Huntington, Fry,
Slack, Stennick and Billadeau.
Another ten wooden flumes, ranging from 72 to 1,903 feet long were part of 27 miles of
laterals. These were named Gilliland, O'Donnell, Pilot Butte, Trotter, Roberts, Miller,
Northwest Blakely, Southwest Blakely, Conway and Nelson.
The first water was delivered to the users in June, 1911, serving all the water rights sold. It
eventually served 12,000 acres with a 17 mile canal. The system started at Lava Island
Falls, about nine miles south and east of Bend. It ended at Silver Lake Road. Cisterns filled
from the canal provided domestic water.
The Pine Forest Ditch Company, incorporated in 1908, provided water to 10,000 acres lying
south and southwest of Bend, taking water from the Arnold System. It was later purchased
by the Arnold District.
At this time, Henry had irrigation water rights to the Arnold Irrigation Company and the Pine
Forest irrigation Company for irrigating his land. With the land cleared of most of the pine
trees in 1911, he could proceed to farm it. The Sottongs had many farm animals, cattle and
hoses.
The dirt trail from Bend to the ranches on Tekampe Road wound around rock outcroppings
from Colorado Avenue and Division south for 1.66 miles (now Parrell Road) where it
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branched southeast for two miles. It then went east and slightly north for a half mile to the
property, staying north of the Arnold Irrigation Canal, but crossing two irrigation laterals that
served the Sottong property.
Architectural Description
The large historic red barn is near Tekampe Road. The historic house is set to the rear of
the parcel. A newer 16'x 20'farm shed is in the middle of the property.
Barn
The gable roof barn with a hayloft dominates the landscape on the road. The barn is about
40 feet tall and is made of rough -sawn wood. The oldest part of the barn is 26 feet wide and
88 feet long. It is in very good condition for its age. It has a "beak" in its gable end on the
west side.
The posts are rough -sawn 6 -inch x 6- inch. Other framing members are a full 2 -inch x 5.5 -
inch rough -sawn lumber. The barn siding is vertical board and bat, excepting that it is
exclusively boards (no bats) on the north side. The boards vary in width from 11 - to 11. 5 -
inches and are 1 -inch thick. The interior is sheathed with the same boards nailed
horizontally. Where the windows were added on the south side, newer plywood sheathes
the interior, covering the framing and historic sheathing.
Most of the barn floor is dirt. A portion of the barn has a raised wooden floor. The milking
room has a concrete floor. An historic 20 -foot x 38 foot shed addition is on the south side.
An approximately 35 -foot x 40 -foot livestock addition is on the northeast Side. In its last
addition, the Uffelmans added a 12 -foot x 15 -foot concrete block milking room to the
northwest side in 1949. The barn is not watertight and sunlight can be seen between many
boards on the ends. The roof is wood shakes in good condition. The barn and the wood
additions sit on a basalt rock foundation. The top of the foundation rocks were cut, whereas
the sides and bottoms of the rocks were left in their natural uneven sha,pes
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interior of bottong House
The historic two-story house is in the vernacular style, similar to an English cottage. It has a
cross gable roof. The flared gable roof over the second story section faces front and is
centered over the entry door. A window is on each side of the entry door. The one-story
living room gable roof faces to the side. The entire house has distinctive flared eves. The
roof is composition roofing.
The house has undergone two additions and is now 3,042 square feet. The historic portion
of the wood frame house is in nearly original appearance. The original portion of the house
includes a living room with a centered rock fireplace at one end, a hand hewn wood
staircase, wood windows with small panes of glass, a kitchen and bath on the first floor and
two rectangular bedrooms on the second floor. The oldest section has fir flooring and floor to
ceiling varnished pine bead -board paneling. It also has hand cut exposed wood beams in
the ceilings and pine beadboard ceilings. Just inside the entry room, a historic wood frame
window is in the interior wall, suggesting a very early alteration to the entry.
In 1949, the Uffelmans added two bedrooms and three hall closets upstairs for their growing
family. They also added a utility room off the rear. A family room, utility room, bathroom
and closet and a second storage room were added in the 1970s.
The original section of the house has a rock foundation and a hand -formed red clay brick
chimney faced in local basalt rock. The livingroom has a floor -to -ceiling basalt rock fireplace.
The exterior front wall of the house is sided with rock. A rock window sill about a foot deep
frames the bottom of the bank of five six -lite front windows. The exterior rock chimney has
large patches of lichen vigorously growing on it, suggesting age.
The second floor has flat wood shake shingle siding in graduated sizes- smaller at the gable
end and wider at the bottom of the second floor. When the 1970s first floor addition was
constructed, new uniform sized wood shingle siding was uniformly put on the entire first floor
of the house. The shingle siding has a 14 -inch reveal. A pair of 2 over 2 windows 28" x 30"
flanks the front entry door. A door to a balcony on the second floor over the entry door
replaced small windows that used to match the other small second -floor historic wood
windows that are about 18 -inches by 30 inches with 1 over 1 lites.
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Agnes and Henry J. Sottong House
Front facing Tekampe Road
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Biographical Information
Agnes May and Henry J Sottong — Owners from 1899 to 1928
Henry J. Sottong came to rural Crook County in 1899 and claimed 160 acres on
Tekampe Road. He regularly traveled to Minnesota to see his wife and mother. He
proved up his claim and was awarded Patent 7364 issued at The Dalles on Dec 1, 1904.
Henry J. Sottong was born on October 22, 1863 in Massachusetts. In 1897, when he
was three years old, his family homesteaded in Wind River County, Minnesota. Henry
purchased a farm and became a farmer in Wadena, Minnesota. In 1888 he married
Augusta Krumroy. They did not have any children. Augusta was ill for along time and
was unable to travel with her husband to Oregon. Therefore, he traveled back and forth
from Wadena, Minnesota to Bend until her death. After his father died in 1905, his
mother Catherine moved in with Henry and his wife Augusta. Catherine died in 1909.
His father, Henry Sottong Sr., owned several businesses in Wadena, Minnesota. He
owned the mercantile store and a grocery store.
In Minnesota the 1900 US Census, shows the family as follows: Henry Sr., born June
1836 in Germany, age 63, married 37 years, owns home, not a naturalized citizen,
immigrated in 1859. He had two children. Catherine Sottong, his wife, was born in
February 1843 in Germany, married 37 years.
In another Wadena household, Henry Sottong Jr. is 35 years old and is living with his
wife of 12 years, Mollie A. Sottong. Henry was born in October 1864 in Massachusetts.
He was a farmer and owed his property and home. Mollie was born in August 1869, was
30 years old and had no children.
In 1910, Henry Sottong Jr. was still primarily living in Wadena, Minnesota, but both his
wife and mother had passed away. The federal 1910 census shows that he was living
with his brother-in-law, George Brauch and his sister Amelia, and their five children, his
nieces and nephews. It lists Henry as being 47 years old and widowed. Later that fall in
1910, he permanently moved to his Bend ranch.
On October7, 1911, he married Agnes Mae Allen in Portland, Oregon. Agnes Allen was
listed on the U.S. Census for 1910 as a widow renting her house in St. Paul, Minnesota.
They took out their marriage license in Multnomah County, Oregon on October 6 and
were married the following day by a minister Harold Olby at J. A. Toll's house. Mr.and
Mrs. Toll were the witnesses. Henry was 47 and is listed as a resident of Crook County.
Agnes was 44 and is listed as a resident of Multnomah County. This marriage occurred
two days after the Oregon Trunk Railroad arrived in Bend and connected Bend to
Portland with passenger service.
On the US Census for 1920 in Deschutes County, Henry Sottong was listed as being 54
and married to Agnes, age 51. Agnes was born in Canada and both of her parents were
born in Canada. Henry is listed as a farmer. He became a US citizen in 1878.
The 1920 census also shows the Griffin, Trotter and Tekampe families living on adjacent
ranches. They along with the Stenkamps had German heritage.
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Henry J. Sottong was president of the Mountain States Fox Farm (1938). He raised
foxes for their fur and sold them to others for breeding. John Lighthill was secretary of
the company. The fox farm was located on The Dalles-California Highway, on the
property where the Bend Fred Meyer Store is located today. Mahlon Couch, an 80+
year old, life-long resident of the Bend area remembers the fox farm. He had an old
horse that was of no use. He took it to the fox farm, tied it up to the fence and left it
there for fox food. Louise Tekampe Hamby says her father and uncle bought two foxes,
a pair, from Mr. Sottong. They planed to get into the fox breeding business. Both foxes
went to live on the uncle's ranch. One day he called to say that her father's fox died. It
turned out that they were more difficult to care for than the two entrepreneurs expected.
The Arnold irrigation Canals provided critical irrigation water to the Sottong farm. In
addition to the 14 miles of main canal in the Arnold Irrigation System, the system
included six wood flumes varying in length from 250 feet to 876 feet. They were known
by the following names: Huntington, Sottong, Fry, Stennick and Billadeau. The Sottong
Flume was replaced in 1959.
Henry lived in Bend until 1943. At age 80, he moved to San Diego to live with Mrs.
Charles Steel, a relative, in San Diego, California. He died in San Diego at age 90 on
October 17, 1953.
Agnes May Sottong was born on November 9, 1865 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She
had three sisters. She moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. One sister, Alzeta Jane Norman
lived in Central Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada; Mrs. Patience Cecil Miller lived in
Wadena, Minnesota; and Anna Elizabeth Northfoss lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Agnes traveled to Portland, Oregon from St. Paul, Minnesota in 1911 and married Henry
Sottong, a widower. Shortly after their marriage they traveled to Bend to start their new
life together on his homestead. . She and Henry raised horses, livestock and chickens.
Anna invested in real estate and mortgages. During an 11 year period from 1914 to
1925 she was involved in mortgages with the Bend Hardware Company, M. W. Gideon,
Basset, Niswonger, John F. Bean, Winfield Griffin, A. H. Horn, William Arnold, C. E.
Griffin, Farley Elliott, Thomas Carufel, W. P. Vandevert, J. J. Klein, Rena Koppang, E. S.
McGuire, Guy R. Pickens, Alice Dobson, and 0. W. Grubb.
Anna died at age 75 at her house south of Bend on December 12, 1940 after a brief
illness. She is buried at Pilot Butte Cemetery. The Methodist minister officiated at her
service. At the time of her death, according to probate records, Anna had $4,094 worth
of real estate and savings.
(Deschutes County Probate File 1000)
(Bulletin, Dec. 13, 1940 p. 4 and Dec. 17, 1940 p. 7)
(Deschutes County City Directories)
(1920 Federal Census, Deschutes County)
(1900 and 19 10 Federal Census, Wadena, Minnesota)
William, Henry and Joseph Stenkamp- owners of ten acres from 1911 to 1916
William John, Henry John and Joseph John Stenkamp were brothers who homesteaded
in Crook County in the late 1800s on adjacent property southeast of the community of
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Brothers. They were one of the sets of brothers that gave the community its name. All of
them were born in Germany. A fourth brother, John Gerhard, did not homestead in
Brothers. He worked in Bend.
Heinrich (Henry) owned 320 acres in Section 29, Township 20, Range 18. Joseph had
land in Section 32. Wilhelm 9 William) had land in Section 32. They were cattle
ranchers. The 1917 Deschutes County Directory states that they were still ranching in
Brothers. There are no records that show them living on Tekampe Road. It is thought
that they bought ten acres of irrigated land from the Sottongs to grow hay for their cattle
when the promised canal for Brothers never came.
The brothers later moved to Bend where they built houses on Riverfront, just east of the
Deschutes River and north of the Colorado Avenue Bridge. Joseph and Elizabeth
Schmeing Stenkamp left Brothers in 1922 and he worked in the Bend mills. William and
Kathryn Losing Stenkamp left Brothers in 1923 to farm in the Blakely Heights area.
Henry and Hubertina Hader Stenkamp left in 1927 to farm northeast of Bend. Stenkamp
Road in that area is named for Henry.
John moved to the Willamette Valley for at year, but came back to Bend in 1914. He
continued to work for various lumber mills. He was known for his hand -made willow
baskets. John married Theresa Sachtjen in 1923. Their son, John G. Stenkamp, and
grandson, Steven Stenkamp, both served as Bend mayors.
Iris and A. C. Trotter - owners from 1927-1936
The 1920 US Census for Deschutes County lists Thomas E. Trotter, 65, head of
household with Alice C. Trotter, 52, as his wife. Both were born in Canada. Their son
Alan C. Trotter, 25, and his wife Iris, 22, were living on the ranch, but in a different
house. They were farmers.
There were 27 miles of laterals to serve the Arnold Irrigation District. They served 4,292
acres. There were ten wood flumes varying in length from 72 feet to 1,903 feet. They
were designated by the following names: Trotter, Gilliland, O'Donnell, Pilot Butte,
Roberts, Miller, Northwest Blakely, Southwest Blakely, Conway and Nelson.
Alice and William Kuhn — owners from 1936-1946
William Kuhn was president of the Arnold Irrigation District (1942)
Ruth E. and Norville Mowry -owners from 1946-1949
Norville Mowry was an engineer for the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railway
Company.
Margaret and Edward Uffelman, - owners from 1949- 1955
The Uffelmans owned a furniture store in Woodburn and had always lived in the city.
Margaret's relatives lived in Bend and owned business here. Her aunt and uncle were
John and Daisy Wettle who owned the Wettle Store. The Wettles came to Bend from
The Dalles in the 1920s to start their store. Margaret's mother and Daisy Wettle were
sisters. They convinced the Uffelmans to move from Woodburn.
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They stayed at the Cascade Motel on Third Street in the fall of 1948 while searching for
a new home and became friends with manager. The day of the move came and a big
Beacon truck arrived to take their goods across the snowy pass to Bend. The family
piled in an old "woody" station wagon — all five children including a seven month old
baby. The oldest was in second grade.
The Uffelmans traveled to Bend on a day of record setting cold temperatures. On Jan
11, 1949 the Bend Bulletin reported on front age that Bend was 12 degrees below zero
that night. Parts of the Santiam and Columbia River were completely frozen over.
Wickiup Reservoir was 24 degrees below zero. An article on the Bulletin's front page
said that 44 days in a row have had freezing nights and wood yards are running out of
fire wood. It was snowing lightly.
The family drove through the high snow all day and finally arrived in Bend at 11 p.m. at
night. The motel manger was worried about them and had their room all warmed up.
He helped get the children warm and settled. The next day they went out to see their
new home. Mrs. Mowry left it spotless, but the oil circulating heater was turned off. She
walked into the one bathroom and saw a toilet cracked in half lying on the floor "like an
opened flower, and a block of ice perfectly formed in the shape of the toilet. The water
pipes from the cistern to the house and barn were all frozen until March, so she had to
walk to the cistern next to the road several times a day to get buckets of water.
They found the house old but solidly built and with a lot of charm. The barn was old, but
good and solid. The two tiny bedrooms were not adequate for the family of seven, so
they added 12 -feet on the house and more bedrooms upstairs. They re -roofed the
house. The land and irrigation system were also in good condition. She did not like that
a previous owner had painted the wood beams in the kitchen ceiling. She thought that
was ugly and put in a dropped ceiling to hide them.
Margaret bought 750 chickens and built two chicken coops. She raised fertile eggs and
hatched them in an electric hatching machine with a thermostat. She sold the chicks to
the feed stores. She also sold eggs. While tending her chick business, she had three
more children. The oldest eight children helped their parents on the 160 acre farm.
Edward "Ned" bought 20 registered Holstein cows and started a Grade "A" dairy. He
was in charge of that business and was proud of the quality of the milk. He built the
milking shed on the barn. They also grew alfalfa. Margaret remembers pitching it up on
the hayloft of the barn. That was hard work, so they eventually got a baler.
In the early 1950s, Ned was talking to Ed Thurston of the US Forest Service about the
Hoo Doo Ski area run by the forest service. They were having a hard time running it and
wanted to privatize it. Ned got together with Dr. Bricker, who owned Anderson's
Sporting Goods Store, and offered to take it over. Ned became the manager the first
year it was privatized. They brought in buildings and rented out 20 cabins there. The
family moved to Hoo Doo in the winter and the kids were all raised as skiers.
When they sold the Sottong ranch, the Uffelmans bought a ranch in eastern Oregon
where they ranched for 20 years. Then they moved to Sublimity upon retiring.
Margaret's father was Edwin Eugene Mayer, Sr. He was a pharmacist who served in
WW I from 1917 to 1919. He became interested in photography and had cameras and
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film for sale in his drugstore. He offered Sawyer's Photo Finishing service in his store.
Seeing the potential for everyone owning cameras, he bought out Sawyer's Photo
Finishing Company on First Street in Portland. They also made black and white
postcards of local scenery for tourists. He bought 20 trucks and motorcycles and hired
young drivers. The drivers picked up film and dropped off the negatives and prints at
over a hundred drug stores on weekly routes that covered southern Washington and all
of Oregon. The film was all processed in Portland.
Based on that experience, he stared the Viewmaster Corporation and bought land in
what is now Washington Square in Tigard Oregon. Then, it was farmland. He
constructed a factory and made Viewmasters, a very popular toy that included
photographs.
Doris M. and Barney Marion Thomas- owners from 1955 to 1958
Barney Marion Thomas was born on April 21, 1912 at Richmond in Wheeler County. He
was graduated from Wheeler County High School as valedictorian of his class. He
attended Oregon State University for two years. He was a member of the Missionary
Baptist Church of Fossil and Bend and of the Oregon Draft Horse Association. He was a
farmer. He lived in Bend from 1955 until his death at St. Charles Medical Center of a
heart attack at age 57 on April 12, 1970.
He and Doris raised three daughters: Bonita Stahlberg, Inez Matson, and Mary Ann
Thomas.
Helen H. and Frank Rust Gilchrist -owners from 1958-1973
Frank R. Gilchrist was the son of the founder of the community of Gilchrist, a logging
town of 500 people built around the Gilchrist Lumber Mill. He became president in 1956
and ran the company until he retired in 1988.
His father, Frank W. Gilchrist, founded Gilchrist Timber Company, the mill and the town
in 1936. The mill was opened in 1939. It included two sawmills, a debarker, a shipper,
planning mill, dry kilns, powerhouse, machine shop, plant buildings, office and log yard.
The Gilchrists invested in shipping, lumber, timber holdings, and farming. They came
from Laurel, Mississippi and were known for their kindness and southern hospitality.
Frank. W. Gilchrist died of a heart attack in Bend on April 4, 1956. His death notice was
printed on the first page of the Bulletin and his contributions to the community were
lauded in the editorial. The obituary in 1956 said he was survived by one daughter, Mrs.
Wayne Ernst of Gilchrist and two sons, Stewart Jones Gilchrist of Laurel Mississippi and
Frank R. Gilchrist of Gilchrist and eight grandchildren.
Frank R. Gilchrist took over the Gilchrist Timber Company in 1956 when his father
passed away. In 1968 and 1969 he spent 1.5 million dollars on a new log debarker, a
ship handling system, and a sawmill to process the small -diameter logs common in
second -growth forests. One of the reasons the mill survived the1983 decline in the
availability of logs that ended many lumber companies was his ability to process small
diameter logs.
In 1978 and 1979 the company spent another ten million dollars on a new sawmill and
debarker, a new planer, trimmer, and strapping and package machine and two dry kilns.
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The company employed 200 people in 1984. It processed ponderosa pine, lodgepole
pine, and fir from lands east of the Cascades. In 1984, the company sold 14 million
dollars worth of lumber, and 2 million dollars in chips, logs and timber.
Frank. R. Gilchrist was born to Mary Mormon and Frank W. Gilchrist on April 2, 1924 in
Big Rapids, Michigan. The family was in the timber business in Michigan and later in
Laurel, Mississippi. In 1938 he moved with his father to Klamath County. They owned
8,000 aces of forests. He graduated from Gilchrist High School and Oregon State
University. He served in the U.S. Navy Air Force and achieved the rank of Lieutenant.
He was an aviator in WWII.
After he took over the Gilchrist Company in 1956, he began practicing a brand of
sustainable forestry that set the standard for eastern and central Oregon's pine forests.
Before it sold off its holdings, it had more high-value old growth timber than nearly any
other private firm in the region.
Frank served on the Oregon Board of Forestry under four governors and was appointed
by the governors to serve as a member of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Advisory
Committee. He also served on the Oregon State University's Forest Products Research
Lab and was a director and president of the national Forest Products Association
Frank and Helen had three sons and one daughter: Frank Rust Gilchrist, Jr.; James
Applewhite Gilchrist; Benjamin Hill Gilchrist; and Susan Ann Gilchrist Hosack.
Helen and Frank R. Gilchrist bought the subject property and 330 adjacent acres of
irrigated farm land on April 21, 1958 and sold it in 1973. Records and interviews indicate
they always resided in Gilchrist and used the house when staying in Bend.
Frank died at St. Charles Medical Center on Feb 25, 1991. He was 66.
Gilchrist Mill about 1940
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Helen H. Gilchrist was born on September 8, 1921 in Memphis, Tennessee. She was a
resident of Gilchrist since 1950. She was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
She died on July 29, 1978 at St. Charles Medical Center.
Both Frank and Helen are buried at Pilot Butte Cemetery in Bend.
Janet and Jim Garrett- owners from 1973-1977
Jim and Janet Garrett bought forty acres of Sottong's homestead. It had a huge in -
ground swimming pool that was said to be the first private pool in the Bend area. The
pool was located on the left side of the house and had a large patio and outdoor sink
and barbecue area. She was told the Gilchrists constructed the outdoor entertainment
area and did a lot of entertaining there.
The property was cross fenced into four sections. A row of historic wagon wheels lined
the entrance to the property. The gate to the front yard was made from a wagon wheel.
The irrigation ditches were in poor condition. Janet worked hard helping the ditch rider
clean them out and repair them.
The Garretts removed the dropped ceiling put in by the Uffelmans. They removed eight
layers of linoleum in the kitchen. The beams in the ceiling of the kitchen were not
uniform, showing that it had undergone an addition. The only heat was from the
livingroorn fireplace. She remembers the short door to the front upstairs bedroom and
that the two original bedrooms were "really tiny". She had to stoop through the door to
get to the bedroom.
Janet had lived in Venezuela, and she named the ranch "Campo Allegre" in memory of
her time there. She nailed a sign with the name on the barn.
Dr. Jim Garrett was a podiatrist in Bend and they grew alfalfa on the 40 acres of irrigated
land. The couple divorced. Janet is now Janet Ford and lives in San Diego. Jim
remarried and lives in Marin County, California.
DECISION AND RECOMMENDATION
Because it meets the criteria for listing, at the conclusion of the public hearing
held on April 21, 2005, the Deschutes County Historical landmarks Commission
voted unanimously to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners add
the Agnes and Henry J. Sottong House and Barn to the county's List of Goal 5
Cultural and Historic Resources, Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan
Chapter 23.108.040.
Dated April 21, 2005
Signed: DW' fit Smith
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Dwight Smith, Sisters Representative,
Historical Landmarks Commission
Secretary to the Deschutes County
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