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Nationality
  
American

Occupation
  
Architect


Name
  
John Storrs

Role
  
Architect

John Storrs (architect)

Born
  
1920
Bridgeport, Connecticut

Buildings
  
Sokol Blosser WinerySalishan LodgeOregon College of Art & Craft

Died
  
August 31, 2003, Portland, Oregon, United States

John W. Storrs (1920 – August 31, 2003) was an American architect in Oregon. A native of Connecticut, the World War II veteran was known for designs in the Northwest Regional style. His notable works include Salishan Lodge, the original tasting room at the Sokol Blosser Winery, and the campus of the Oregon College of Art & Craft, among others.

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Early life

John Storrs (architect) John Storrs Modernist Portland Monthly

Storrs was born in 1920 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Growing up he joined the Boy Scouts and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. He then attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where he was an all-American swimmer, and graduated in 1942. Storrs then joined the United States Navy where he was in command of a sub chaser during World War II. Following the war, he graduated from the Yale School of Architecture with a master's degree in architecture in 1949. He married Frances, and had four children.

Career

John Storrs (architect) Southwest Hills Portland John Storrs Remodel Cowan Construction LLC

After hearing a lecture by Oregon architect Pietro Belluschi, Storrs moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1954 after practicing in Fairfield, Connecticut, for a few years. In Portland, he got his big break when he received the commission for the Portland Garden Club in the Goose Hollow area of Southwest in 1956. Storrs next big project came in 1959 when he designed the Lumber Industry Pavilion at the Oregon Centennial. The wood hyperbolic paraboloids were destroyed in 1962 by the Columbus Day Storm. He designed a similar one, Marineland at Pier 99, located along Interstate 5 near the Washington border.

John Storrs (architect) John Storrs Architect Midcentury Modern Homes Portland 1955

Other projects designed by Storrs include the Oregon College of Art & Craft, Lake Oswego's Lakeridge High School, the World Forestry Center at Washington Park in Portland, St. Mary's Catholic Church in Corvallis, Central Catholic High School in Portland, and Congregation Ahavath Achim, among others. He also designed Sokol Blosser Winery's original tasting room in 1977, with his final project as a conversion of a closed mattress factory into the John's Landing Water Tower building with retail and office space. Storrs' most notable design is the Salishan Lodge resort at Gleneden Beach, Oregon, along the Oregon Coast.

Later life

John Storrs (architect) Oseran Residence green gables dr

Storrs studied the culinary arts in London in the 1970s, but only prepared meals for his family and friends. He died on August 31, 2003, in Portland at the age of 83.


John Storrs (architect) 5th annual Street of Eames tour in Portland This year is the last

References

John Storrs (architect) Wikipedia


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