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• Ernest Brunner worked the family farm and dryer operations and married Marie Darrington at the aige of thirty - three, she was twenty - eight. Marie wils born in Nye Hill.. Mahtana and , attended nursing school in Portland, between 1927 and 1930. She ultimately worked as a nurse and anesthesia specialist in Eugene In 1935 Ernest and Marie became parents the birth of their' son Joe. to March of 1939, Ernest died in a tragic tractor accident on the family farm, leaving Marie a young widow and mother. On July 9, 1940, Marie rnarried Peter Schmitz,, Jr,, who- had been best man at her rnarr a to Ernest Brunner. Peter Schmitz, Jr-. was born in Minnesota in 1909 and his family arrived in the Cheshire area of Oregon between IM and 1913. Fallowing their marriage the.couple - purchased the house at 1410 River Road from the elder Brunner's, along with ten acres of land. Peter Schmitz oversaw all aspects of.the Brunner Commercial Dryer and was Instrumental in � developing the peak growth and prosperity of this business. Peter Schmitz died in 1989, when . joe Brunner took over management of the operations. • Information garnered from the application; personal interviews with the Schmitz relatives, and ` • an understanding of the development of the River Road areas suggests that the Brunner and ' Schmitz families associated with the Brunner Commercial Dryer operation were persons • significant to Eugene's past because of their long tenure as operators of the dryer business. Nut a nd d ryers were not common in the community and Ms. Carter's research revea is that only six existed in 1944 and only four were existant in 1955. The Brunner Commercial Dryer continued in operation until 2003, making it one of the longest lived commnercial dryers in Eugene. (c) Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period,-or method of . construction or-represents the work ©f a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction. The American Foursquare form of arch itecture is a building type that was popularized between 1900 `and 1920 in the Pacific Northwest and is considered an outgrowth of the Prairie Style that . • was made popular by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Midwest: Key elements of the style include a square or rectangular floor plan; wide overhanging eaves; two stories in height with one story porches or wings; massive square porch posts and hipped roof dormers; paired and triple casement windows sometimes with leaded glass; and horizontal board siding. A low - pitched • ' hipped "roof helps to create a sense of horizontality in this building form. Eugene's Historic River Road, page 12.8 coftborates that the American Foursquare is less a style than a form and was popular for some farmhouses in the River Road area. The Bru nner - S House is a distinctive example of the American Foursquare form of residential architecture for. Eugene. The house is in excellent condition and includes all of the . key elements referenced above. The house exhibits a porte cochere on the north elevation ' Porte- cochere; 1. A carriage porch. 2. A doorway large enough to let a vehicle pass from street to parking area. ' HRS A jenda - Page T ■ • • it