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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018
Cabin: Family celebrates link to historical high society
a few years later. Elsie was
familiar as the Sunday school
teacher at Ocean Park United
Methodist Church; she died in
1980. Moore’s aunt, Geraldine,
lived in the house until 1995.
The Craftsman-style home
has shingled siding and two
porches, one with a swing built
by the sisters’ father, Henry
Shogren. It had its roof replaced
in 2016 and four windows have
been painstakingly repaired or
replaced by Gardner retaining
the same green trim.
The downstairs is finished
in stained fir, with exposed
walls and ceilings. It consists
of a kitchen, pantry, two bed-
rooms and a living room with
a large brick fireplace and
space for a baby grand piano.
Through double French doors
is the dining room with a large
antique original oak table that
once seated as many as 22.
U-shaped stairs take visitors up
to six more bedrooms, one cre-
ated from an attic. All are dec-
orated with artifacts from the
early and middle 20th Century.
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Lizzie, was sister and house-
keeper to the Shogrens.
Moore’s daughter, Melissa
Gardner, lives in Long Beach
and works for the Salt Hotel.
She has replaced damaged
windows as part of her course-
work in the historic pres-
ervation program at Clat-
sop Community College. The
eight-bedroom beach cabin is
packed with mementos from
the Shogren sisters and their
descendants, with each room
laid out to celebrate its for-
mer occupant. Many furnish-
ings, including antique dress-
ers, are original to the cabin
or came from the Shogren sis-
ters’ grand home in the Mount
Tabor Park district of Portland.
“It’s like living in a museum
when you come here,” said the
37-year-old Gardner. “It’s so
special — there’s so much fam-
ily history. It’s amazing that
there is this much that we still
have.”
Patrick Webb/Chinook Observer
Melissa Gardner of Long Beach unrolls the original spec-
ifications for the Shogren House.
Still with original
family
The Klipsan house was one
of more than a dozen prop-
erties from around the state
approved earlier this month for
listing on the National Register,
a federal program administered
through the Washington State
Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation.
“Ours is the only one that
is still in the original family,”
Moore said.
Michael Houser, state archi-
tectural historian, visited the
Klipsan building as part of the
application process.
Listing on the register
imposes no restrictions on the
property owners. It allows fed-
eral tax credits for restoration
in some cases and triggers a
review if potential government
actions would affect its value.
The cottage qualified
because of its architecture;
it was the work of Albert E.
Doyle and his early partner,
William B. Patterson. It cost
about $3,500 and was com-
pleted in 1909. Doyle and Pat-
terson’s other work set the
tone for commercial build-
ings in Portland from the turn
of the century to the early
1920s, especially in the use of
glazed terracotta. Their cab-
ins along the Washington state
and Oregon coasts inspired
a regional style widely emu-
lated in the 1930s in places like
Neahkahnie.
Doyle rose to prominence in
Portland and Eugene, design-
ing parts of Reed College, the
Multnomah County Central
Library, the Benson Hotel and
the Meier & Frank Building.
The link to high-end fash-
ion in the early days of the 20th
century was also key.
“I think it’s a special place
in terms of its architecture, its
connection to the Shogren sis-
ters and how the Long Beach
Peninsula developed its tourist
industry,” Houser said.
The peninsula flourished
‘I love it’
Patrick Webb/Chinook Observer
May Shogren
Albert E. Doyle
first as an oceanfront play-
ground for the barons of com-
merce and Portland socialites
who would escape the city by
steamship and stagecoach. The
Ilwaco Railroad and Steam
Navigation Co. line later broad-
ened its accessibility.
The Oregonian’s society
page carried paragraphs list-
ing their names and activi-
ties, which included enjoy-
ing the Canaris Bathhouse and
the indoor seawater swimming
pools at the Crystal Waters
Natatorium. Visitors could
rent skiffs on Willapa Bay, rent
cars for $1 per hour, attend the
movie theater, go clamming
and fishing, or gather around
beach bonfires.
Family fortunes
Swedish immigrants Henry
and Sophia Shogren settled in
Portland in 1872 and had eight
children. At 14, daughter May
was apprenticed to Henry Litt’s
tailoring shop then started her
own dressmaking business in
1889. M&A Shogren Dress-
makers developed when sis-
ter Anne joined her four years
later, handling the administra-
tion while May created most
designs.
American fashion was dic-
tated by Paris so the Shogrens
modified outfits they saw in
fashion plates; they never used
patterns, but would fit the fab-
rics directly to each customer.
Later they traveled to New
York and Paris for inspiration
and to gather fabrics; creations
were characterized by lace
appliques and insertions, intri-
cate layered bodices, extensive
pleating and hand-beading.
At the height of their fame,
the women employed 100 peo-
ple during the first 10 years
of the century. Their dresses
sold internationally and some
commanded a price equal to a
Model T Ford. A 1915 ledger
reveals their dresses started at
about $100, with $250 being
more typical, equivalent to
$2,500 to $6,000 today. Cus-
tomers included the wealthy
and political elite.
In 1903, a fire severely
damaged the Dekum Building,
which housed the seventh-floor
dress shop. It led to changes
in city code that demanded
enhanced fire escapes and
greater water supplies in tall
buildings.
The Oregonian lamented,
“The destruction of the
Shogren sisters’ dressmaking
parlor means that many society
ladies will have to appear at the
next social function in dresses
they have worn before … but
the less fortunate ones have lost
their fine robes, and will have
to bear the pitying glances of
lucky sisters at the next fash-
ionable party.”
Although the Shogrens
lost about $15,000, they soon
rebuilt their business in the
Madison Park Building. The
height of their success was
during Portland’s 1905 Lewis
and Clark Exposition. News-
papers reported that Mary Bid-
well Carey, the wife of Judge
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Charles H. Carey, wore a
Shogren dress to the opening
reception, and Emma Corbett,
wife of Henry W. Corbett, wore
one of deep purple silk velvet
with ornate black and ivory
lace, and a beaded bodice.
Coincidentally, Doyle, the
architect, designed the Expo-
sition’s Forestry Building, a
rustic cabin dubbed the “Log
Parthenon,” one of the few
Exposition buildings intended
to be permanent. It survived
until 1964 before going up in a
gigantic blaze.
Adventurous sisters
The Shogren sisters were
born in the 1860s; they never
married or had children. They
climbed Mount Hood in 1895
and were charter members of
the Mazamas mountaineering
club.
Anne Shogren was an
accomplished
equestrian,
winning regional competi-
tions. Photos on display at the
Klipsan cottage show her and
society ladies riding in elabo-
rate hats. The sisters developed
some of the earliest custom rid-
ing pants worn by American
women, having their clients sit
on a headless horse model in
their fitting room.
They retired in 1920 as
less elaborate, mass-produced
clothing diminished demand
for the custom-tailored dresses
of the Victorian and Edwardian
eras. The sisters died in 1928
and 1934. Some of their designs
are preserved in the collections
of the Oregon Historical Soci-
ety and the Fashion Institute of
Technology Museum in New
York City.
The ‘Alder Sea’
The Shogrens’ summer cot-
tage — sometimes referred
to as the “Alder Sea” — was
built on acreage purchased
for $1,000 from L.A. Loomis
of Long Beach. It is west of
the highway and south of the
Klipsan lifesaving station,
which was established in 1891.
Completion of the North
Jetty at the mouth of the
Columbia River in 1916 caused
sand to build up on the beaches,
and the cottage now sits far-
ther from the ocean than when
it was built.
Moore’s grandmother, Elsie,
and her husband, Aaron Gould,
bought the house for $1,000
in 1940, although he died just
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The Shogren House was designed in 1908 and was the
early work of Albert E. Doyle, who became a prominent
Portland architect.
For Cosette Moore, the
424-mile drive from Pomeroy
is rewarded by relaxing at the
cabin, surrounded by family
history. She owns it jointly with
a cousin in Eastern Oregon and
five siblings in eastern Wash-
ington and Idaho. Daughter
Melissa Gardner and her sib-
lings, Ryan Gardner of Ilwaco
and Jessica Gardner of Seaside,
maintain it, cut the grass and
clean the gutters.
Moore watches with pride
as Melissa Gardner unrolls the
crinkled 1909 blueprints and
talks animatedly about the res-
toration work that will help
earn her an associate degree
in historical preservation this
spring. “It’’s been really fun,”
Gardner said. “Some sills had
totally rotted away. They are
kind of like new, but old — sort
of.”
As the black-and-white
images of her great aunts Anne
and May in their ornate dresses
stare down from photos on the
wall, Moore strokes Sweetie,
her 9-year-old black lab-collie
mix, who guards the property
attentively. When asked what
the Shogren cottage means to
her, the simplicity of her reply
tells all.
“I love it.”
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