Albert S. Sholes House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The house in 2009
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Location	1599 S Alpine Street, Cornelius, Oregon
Coordinates	45°31′08″N 123°03′08″W / 45.51901°N 123.052259°W / 45.51901; -123.052259
Built	1909
Architect	Richard Martin Jr.
Architectural style	Craftsman / Bungalow
NRHP reference No.	82003755[1]
Added to NRHP	September 2, 1982

The Albert S. Sholes House, located in Cornelius, Oregon, is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).^[1] Built in 1909, the bungalow was designed by Richard Martin Jr. for banker Albert Sholes.

Albert Seymour Sholes was born in 1844 in Michigan and moved to Oregon in 1901.^[2] He settled in Portland, then moved to Hillsboro in 1903; there, he was a banker with Edward Schulmerich at the Hillsboro Commercial Bank.^[2] Schulmerich's home in Hillsboro is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3] Sholes started buying into the Cornelius State Bank in 1906; he would later own a majority share.^[2]

In 1909, he had a new home built in Cornelius on Alpine Street, just south of the railroad tracks.^[2] He platted 91 lots on his property in the city's Pleasant View Addition, and retained three on the eastern end at 16th Street for his house and two for his children.^[2] The next year, he left the Hillsboro Commercial Bank, and in 1911 he was elected mayor of Cornelius.^[2] During his single term he helped to found the fire department.^[2] His son Frank H. also served as mayor from 1915 to 1918 and in 1929.^[2]

Albert Sholes died in 1931, and businessman Percy Hillis bought the home in 1933.^[2] Hillies and his family kept the home into the 1960s, leaving it in its original condition.^[2] Joe and Katherine Redwine acquired the house in 1967.^[2] On September 2, 1982, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places.^[1] By 2005 the home was owned by Mark Dakins.^[4]

The architect for the house was Richard Martin Jr., who helped design other buildings such as the now Waldschmidt Hall at the University of Portland.^[2] He designed a 2+1⁄2-story Craftsman Bungalow with a Georgian Colonial facade.^[2] Inside, there is a central entry with stairs that the entire home is focused upon.^[2] The exterior includes porches and a shed-roofed dormer.^[2]

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Oregon