Donaldson Rowles House | |
 Donaldson Rowles House in 2023 | |
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| Location | North Ave. Challis, Idaho |
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| Coordinates | 44°30′22″N114°13′23″W / 44.50611°N 114.22306°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 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]
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]
