John Everett Tourtellotte (2/22/1869-5/8/1939) Portland, Oregon

Born in a small town in Connecticut and educated in New England schools, he went to Boise, Idaho when he was twenty (two years before Idaho became a State to begin work in that city. Later he formed a partnership with Charles Hummel under the firm name of Tourtellotte & Hummel, and designed the following buildings in Boise, Carnegie Library, High School, St. John's Catholic Cathedral, Gooding College for the Deaf and Blind, and the Idaho State Capitol, completed in 1907.

Independently,he prepared plans for the Industrial and Technical School at Pocatello, and other buildings at the State University in Moscow, Idaho. After moving to Portland in 1913, he opened an office in the city and through the following years continued active in practice, designing both public and educational buildings. Notable examples of these, built in Oregon, were the Douglas County Court House at Roseburg, Linn County Court House at Albany (unfinished at the time of his death), Administration Building at Willamette College, and the Hill Military School in Portland.