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{{short description|Historic house in Oregon, United States}}
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  | name = Zula Linklater House
  | nrhp_type = 
  | image = Zula Linklater House fall - Hillsboro, Oregon.JPG
  | caption = West side of the building in 2009
  | location = [[Hillsboro, Oregon|Hillsboro]], [[Oregon]], USA
  | nearest_city = 
  | coordinates = {{coord|45|31|27|N|122|59|15|W|display=inline,title}}
  | locmapin = Hillsboro Beaverton OR
  | area =
  | built = 1923<ref name=uo>Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest. [http://boundless.uoregon.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/archpnw&CISOPTR=2758&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 Linklater, Zula, House (Hillsboro, Oregon).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718172911/http://boundless.uoregon.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Farchpnw&CISOPTR=2758&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 |date=July 18, 2011 }} UO Libraries. Retrieved on August 10, 2008.</ref>
  | architect = 
  | architecture = [[Mediterranean Revival Style architecture|Mediterranean]]<ref name=uo/>
  | added = August 1, 1984<ref name=oprd>{{cite web
  | title = Oregon National Register List
  | publisher = State of Oregon
  | url = http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf
  | access-date =  2008-08-09}}
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  | refnum = 84003108<ref name=oprd/>
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The '''Zula Linklater House''' is a two-story [[office building]] on Second Avenue in downtown [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], [[United States]]. Completed in 1923, the [[Mediterranean Revival Style architecture|Mediterranean style]] structure is built of [[concrete]], wood, and stucco. Originally constructed for Zula Warren Linklater as a home, it was renovated and turned into office space in 1984. The building was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1984.

==History==
Zula Warren was born on August 12, 1870, near Hillsboro with the family residence near what is today 10th Avenue and East Main Street.<ref name=hhs>[http://www.hillsborohistorical.org/tour/cc/linklater.html Linklater House.]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Hillsboro Historical Society. Retrieved on August 9, 2008.</ref> She married local doctor Samuel Towers Linklater after she turned 28 years old and would have six children with the widower.<ref name=hhs/> The husband died on February 8, 1914, with Zula using the family investments to support the family and build a new home.<ref name=hhs/>

Daughter Ruth requested that her mother build a home "that would last forever."<ref name=hhs/> Construction began in 1922 on the house on a property Samuel had bought in 1889.<ref name=hhs/> The concrete dwelling was completed in 1923.<ref name=uo/> On February 8, 1930, Zula died and the home passed to her son Kenneth.<ref name=hhs/> He lived there briefly, but never sold the home, with the residence changing ownership after his death in 1983.<ref name=hhs/> Kenneth married Jeanne Latourette, the daughter of [[Earl C. Latourette]] of the [[Oregon Supreme Court]].<ref name=uolaw>[http://beta.law.uoregon.edu/students/scholarships/ Scholarships: Student Life.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720095422/http://beta.law.uoregon.edu/students/scholarships/ |date=July 20, 2011 }} University of Oregon School of Law. Retrieved on September 14, 2008.</ref>

On August 1, 1984, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Zula Linklater House.<ref name=oprd/> That year contractor and developer Eugene Zurbrugg renovated the structure and converted it into office space.<ref>Potter, Connie. Close to home. ''[[The Oregonian]]'', October 17, 1991.</ref> With it fully leased at the completion of the remodel, the conversion was seen as a beginning of a change to the building type in downtown Hillsboro from retail to a more commercial focus.<ref>Potter, Connie. Optimism rising in Hillsboro. ''[[The Oregonian]]'', August 17, 1989.</ref> As of 2008, the building housed professionals, including the [[Legal Aid]] office for [[Washington County, Oregon|Washington County]].<ref>[http://www.osbar.org/public/ris/LowCostLegalHelp/LegalAid.html Legal Aid.] [[Oregon State Bar]]. Retrieved on August 10, 2008.</ref>

==Details==
[[File:Zula Linklater House Hillsboro Oregon.JPG|thumb|Front of building in 2008]]
The two-story, gray office building was built of wood, concrete, and featured a [[stucco]] exterior.<ref name=uo/> It was the only home in [[Hillsboro, Oregon|Hillsboro]] constructed of concrete during the 1920s.<ref name=hhs/> The Zula Linklater House is of the [[Mediterranean Revival Style architecture]] popular at the time of its construction.<ref name=uo/>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/index.cfm?do=v.dsp_siteSummary&resultDisplay=47752 Oregon Historic Sites Database]

{{National Register of Historic Places Oregon}}
{{Hillsboro Oregon}}

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[[Category:Houses completed in 1923]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Oregon]]
[[Category:Mediterranean Revival architecture in Oregon]]
[[Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon]]
[[Category:1923 establishments in Oregon]]
[[Category:Houses in Hillsboro, Oregon]]