Ellis Lawrence House
	Current Address: 2133 NE 21st Street Year Built: 1906 Status: Survives Original Owner: Ellis Lawrence Architect: Ellis Lawrence, Architect Photo Source: Residential Portland, 1911

From Harmony in Diversity: The Architecture and Teaching of Ellis F. Lawrence, Michael Shellenbarger, editor:

“Lawrence’s first Oregon residential design, done in 1906, was his own house....Typical of the Arts and Crafts style, the front exhibits a sweeping front-facing gable at the south end, with the rest of the facade distinguished by the horizontal line of a hip roof.....The Lawrence residence was built as a double house; Lawrence’s mother and sister lived on the south side and he and his family on the north side. A buzzer system connected the two houses; no interior doors joined the two sides, although the attic was accessible from both sides.

His mother’s side is a traditional Colonial central hall plan with rooms on either side of a main stair hall.  Built-in china cabinets, bookcases, and fireplace mantel are detailed with classical motifs and painted white.  Beautiful art glass cabinet doors in the living room are done in a geometric pattern similar to those in Lawrence’s own portion of the house. This is the only detail similar on both sides, and doors tend to look slightly out of place in these otherwise austere classical surroundings...."

This house is widely credited as being the first English Arts & Crafts house built in Portland to designs inspired by the English architect C. F. A. Voysey, who, with William Morris, is recognized as one of the leaders of the English Arts & Crafts Movement in the late 19th Century.