Donaldson Rowles House

The Donaldson Rowles House, located on North Ave. in Challis, Idaho, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

Donaldson Rowles House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	North Ave., Challis, Idaho
Coordinates	44°30′22″N 114°13′23″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1910
Built by	Rowles, Donaldson
MPS	Challis MRA
NRHP reference No.	80001317[1]
Added to NRHP	December 3, 1980

The house is a log house built of sawn logs by Challis carpenter Donaldson Rowles (b.1885), who was son of Donaldson Rowles, a sheriff living in Challis in 1900. Its original plan, a lateral rectangle with a forward-facing ell, is similar to that of the Bill Chivers House, another NRHP-listed house in Challis. It had a dirt roof which was replaced in 1930 with sheet metal over round log purlins. It was expanded by Rowles in 1926 to add a kitchen and other rooms in board and batten and horizontal log lean-tos on the east and north sides.[2]

It is notable as an "owner-built example of late log architecture in Challis. The house represents the persistence of horizontal log construction into the twentieth century and the use of sawn logs, a rarity in Idaho log construction."[2]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Idaho State Historical Society Inventory: Donaldson Rowles House". National Park Service. 1980. Retrieved October 9, 2017. With photo from 1980.