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The fashionable home built for W. D. Fenton on SE 16th Avenue on Portland’s East Side between 1892 and 1894 is significant to the city of Portland as a well-preserved example of Queen Anne–style architecture, with exceptionally elaborate cut-out work embellishing the gable ends and wraparound veranda.
Moreover, the house is the principal landmark in Portland associated with William David Fenton (1853–1925), a distinguished lawyer, state legislator, and general counsel in Oregon for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Judge Fenton, as he was generally addressed, was commemorated elsewhere in the state in the 1938 renaming of Fenton Hall in Eugene, longtime home of the University of Oregon Law School.
When his health failed, he had donated his outstanding library to the institution in memory of his deceased son and law partner.
A native of Missouri, Judge Fenton was the oldest of ten children. His family crossed the country by wagon train in 1865, when he was twelve years old, and settled in Yamhill County. At the age of fifteen, he entered the preparatory department of McMinnville College, and in 1872 he graduated from Christian College in Monmouth. He taught school and farmed until his appointment as assistant state librarian.
In 1870, “Billy,” as he was affectionately called in a 1925 Oregon Journal editorial, declined a cadetship to West Point, as he “had no taste for military life.”
Having read law at night during his years in Salem while working in the state library, William Fenton was admitted to the bar in December 1875.
The following spring, he was elected to the Oregon Legislature on the Democratic ticket.
In 1885, William Fenton moved to Portland to become a partner in Judge J. C. Morel’s legal firm, and in June 1891 he joined the prestigious law firm of Bronaugh, McArthur and Bronaugh. There he represented the Southern Pacific Railroad as well as several other large corporations.
After the deaths of Judges Bronaugh and McArthur, Fenton practiced alone with his son Kenneth, who graduated from Yale in 1910 and joined his father in the firm.
Judge Fenton and nine other community leaders founded the Oregon Historical Society in 1898, and he later became its president. While in that office, he was influential in establishing the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. In 1905, he drafted the legislation for Portland’s Lewis and Clark Fair and served as one of its directors.
William D. Fenton was a well-respected civic leader. He was a member of the Oregon State Bar Association and a 33rd-degree Mason, the highest rank in the Masonic Order.
While practicing law, he collected one of the finest law libraries in the western United States. In 1921, following the untimely death of his third son and law partner, Fenton donated his library to the University of Oregon Law School in memory of Kenneth Fenton.
In declining health—seemingly from extended court battles over the Oregon and California Company land grant case—the elder Fenton gave up his practice in his later years.
Fenton Hall, the home of the University of Oregon Law School built in 1905, was renamed in his honor in 1938.
The Fenton Building in downtown Portland was constructed for Fenton ca. 1902. Located at 310 SW 6th Avenue, the Commercta] Style professional office building had undergone a series of name changes and renovations, and was razed for a parking structure in 1971.
William D. and Katherine L. Fenton were married in 1879 and had four sons, all of whom achieved prominence in the community: Dr. Ralph A. Fenton (1880–1906), an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist; Dr. Horace B. Fenton (1884–1926), a graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School; Kenneth L. Fenton (1887–1917), previously mentioned; and William D. Fenton, Jr., a music dealer.
National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Fenton (William D,) House"
Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.
Construction began in 1787 at the directive of George Washington, and was completed on January 10, 1791, using a fund of $1,500, established by him. Whale oil lamps were originally used for illumination. In 1855, following formation of the Lighthouse Board, a fourth-order Fresnel lens was installed; that lens was replaced by a second-order Fresnel lens, which was replaced later by an aerobeacon in 1958. That lens was updated with a DCB-224 aerobeacon in 1991 (Wikipedia.)
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The most photographed lighthouse in the United States. You can see why, so picturesque. So, mine is not the prettiest nor one of a few .. but it is my encounter on this beautiful night along with my own glorious sunset view. :)
Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.