Birth Date: | July 31, 1877 |
Birth Place: | Independence, Oregon |
Death Place: | Oregon |
Occupation: | Architect |
Wade Hampton Pipes (July 31, 1877 – July 1, 1961) was an American architect in based in Portland, Oregon. Pipes was considered the "foremost exponent of English Cottage architecture" in the state.[1]
Pipes admired the work of English architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens,[2] and was also influenced by C. F. A. Voysey.[3] He designed in the Arts and Crafts style.[3] In his fifty-year career, he designed some 70 residences.[3] Many of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[4] In 1926, Pipes designed and a Tudor Revival style home in Southwest Portland for his father, judge Martin L. Pipes.[1] The house is listed on the NRHP as the Martin Luther Pipes House.[4] He also designed houses for naturalist William L. Finley, congressman Maurice Crumpacker, and author Lewis A. McArthur.[3]
Pipes was born on July 31, 1877, in Independence, Oregon.[3]
Pietro Belluschi described him as "an elegantly dressed man in English tweeds".[3]
Pipes died on July 1, 1961, having spent his entire life in Oregon except for his period of study in England.[3]
From 1907 to 1911, Pipes studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, England.[3]