Bishopcroft is a historic house located in the Southwest Hills neighborhood of Portland, in the US state of Oregon. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was built in 1911 for the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon as a residence and headquarters. Designed by David C. Lewis, the Tudor Revival home contains a private chapel, a ballroom, a wine cellar, and five bedrooms. History The current structure known as Bishopcroft was constructed at Elm Street and 19th Avenue in Portland in 1911 with David C. Lewis as its architect. It was constructed as the residence for Charles Scadding, then the Episcopal Church Bishop of Oregon, after Ascension Episcopal Chapel had been moved to an adjacent lot in the "prestigious" Portland Heights (now Southwest Hills) neighborhood the same year. The Portland Heights Bishopcroft was not the first episcopal residence known as "Bishopcroft" in Portland. The older Bishopcroft had served as Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris's residence until his death in 1906. Towards the end of his episcopate, Morris's advanced age had proved a problem and the old Bishopcroft was in disrepair upon his passing. Scadding commissioned Lewis to construct the new Bishopcroft in 1910 on the former site of Ascension. After Walter Taylor Sumner replaced Scadding after the latter's death in 1914, the old Bishopcroft was modified to serve as a home for members of the Anglican Sisters of St. John the Baptist after a 1914 fire destroyed their school at St. Helen's Hall, with Sumner to take residence at the new Bishopcroft in 1915. The new Bishopcroft remained an episcopal residence until it was sold in 1939. Design The structure is a Tudor Revival home with an exterior of brick with scored stucco and half timbering siding. Some qualities of Bishopcroft, including its semi-elliptical arched entry porch, have been identified as distinctively Tudor Revival in character. There have been several renovations to the structure since 1939, including the addition of a garage and deletion of a closet and a pantry on the second floor. Bishopcroft was originally constructed with a ballroom, a grand staircase, and a private chapel adjoining the bishop's office; the chapel's altar has since been removed and the ballroom converted to an entertainment space with a home theater. References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon Episcopal Church in Oregon Tudor Revival architecture in Oregon Southwest Hills, Portland, Oregon