PARKER, Jamieson Kirkwood (1895-1939), an architect from Portland, Oregon who prepared an elaborate Tudor Revival design for the Pooley Residence on Rockland Avenue, Victoria, B.C. in 1928. This project was completed with local associate Ralph Berrill of Victoria, and it still stands today.
Parker was born in Portland and in 1912, at the young age of 17 years, he became an apprentice in the architectural office of A.E. Doyle, a leading architect in Portland. He remained there for two years, then moved to Philadelphia to study architecture at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1916. He them moved to New York City to join the office of H. Van Buren Magonigle, a prominent architect there and trained with him for two years. Parker then returned to Portland and in July 1919 he formed a partnership with Folger Johnson, as Johnson & Parker, Architects, but by 1921 Parker had opened his own office where he specialized in the design of large private houses. In 1935 he was appointed as the State Director in Oregon of the Federal Housing Administration, and he held that position until 1939. Parker died in Portland on 8 December 1939 (obituary Oregonian [Portland], 9 Dec. 1939, 1; biog. In H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 454; biog. in Richard Ritz, Architects of Oregon: A Biographical Dictionary, 2002, 307-09) .
(works in Canada)
VICTORIA, B.C., large residence for Edward Pooley, Rockland Avenue, 1928, with local associate architect Ralph Berrill (M. Segger & D. Franklin, Exploring Victoria's Architecture, 1996, 195, illus.; Victoria Heritage Foundation, This Old House – Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods, Vol. 3, 2021, 202-03, illus. & descrip.)
(works in Oregon)
PORTLAND, ORE., residence for D.M. Drake, 24th Street near Regent's Drive, 1922 (Oregon Daily Journal [Portland], 29 Jan. 1922, Section Three, p. 1, descrip.)
PORTLAND, ORE., residence for Alfred Parker, East 30th Street at Tolman Street, in Eastmoreland, 1922 (Oregon Daily Journal [Portland], 23 April 1922, Section Three, p. 1, illus.)
PORTLAND, ORE., residence for William H. Anderson, Edgecliff Road near Greenwood Road, in Dunthorpe, 1922 (Oregon Daily Journal [Portland], 29 Oct. 1922, Section Three, p. 1)
PORTLAND, ORE., residence for R.W. Mersereau, East 29th Street at Carlton Street, in Eastmoreland, 1922 (Oregon Daily Journal [Portland], 26 Nov. 1922, Section Three, p. 1, illus.)
SALEM, ORE., residence for Carl E. Nelson, E Street NE, 1924 (Statesman Journal [Salem], 7 July 1997, 13, historical article)
PORTLAND, ORE., First Unitarian Church, SW Main Street at SW 12th Avenue, 1924 (USA, Historic American Building Survey, designation report)
PORTLAND, ORE., St. Mark's Episcopal Church, NW 21st Street at NW Marshall Street, 1925 (inf. Oregon State Historic Preservation Office)
KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., The Williams Block, Main Street, between 7th & 8th Streets, 1927 (Evening Herald [Klamath Falls], 5 May 1927, 4, descrip.)