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The New Yorker Herman S. Brookman (1891-1973) came to OR in 1923, to work on the extensive Estate of M. Lloyd Frank, a co-owner of Portland's Meier and Frank Department Store and his wife, Edna Levy Frank, the daughter of a prominent San Francisco jeweler. (She and Lloyd remained married from 1915 until 1932, when they divorced. She continued to live at the estate until 1935.) Brookman had worked since 1909 for the noted designer of large East Coast residences, Harrie Thomas Lindeberg (1879-1959), and had developed extensive expertise in the design of upper-class residences and the arrangement of large rural estates. Frank spent approximately $1.3 million on this residential complex, according to the inventory form done for the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, $65,000 on the buildings themselves. In 06/1942, the Frank Family sold/donated the 63-acre estate to form the core of the Lewis and Clark College Campus. Lewis and Clark, begun in 1867 as a Presbyterian school, Albany College, (located in Albany, OR), was renamed shortly after it relocated to the Frank Estate in 1945. In 1977, elements of the Frank Estate still in college use were the Manor House (built between 1924 and 1926), also known as "Fir Acres," the 1-and-a-half-story gatehouse, a U-shaped garage/workshop/greenhouse ensemble, a bath house, a shed (that became the first chapel), and four more greenhouses. The extensively landscaped grounds were not finished by Frank until 1929. McHolland Builders served as the building contractor working with Brookman on the Frank Estate.

PCAD id: 19456