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<div style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:125%">'''Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1886-1887; Omaha, Nebraska, 1888-1893; Portland, Oregon, 1894-1900'''</div style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:125%">


D.B.A. S. E. Maxon & Company, Architects

'''Stiles Ezra Maxon''' was born on July 28 1849, in New York.[[#References|[9]]] He appears in Council Bluffs, Iowa as an architect in 1886, and as a Clerk for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the U. S. Treasury in 1887.  The next year Maxon opened an architectural practice in Omaha, where he partnered with '''[[Louis Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois (1856-1930), Architect|L. J. B. Bourgeois]]''' and Henry C. Cooke in 1890-1891.  By 1894 he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he was working as an architect in 1900. Maxon was married to Eliza Lane in 1868, with whom he had seven children. He died on October 6, 1914, and is buried in Pendleton, Oregon.[[#References|[4][5][6][7][9]]]

This page is a contribution to the publication, '''[[Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects]]'''. See the [[Format and contents of Nebraska architect entries|format and contents]] page for more information on the compilation and page organization.
[[File:HB13_w.jpg|thumb|center|upright=2.00|alt=HB13_w.jpg|Joel N. Cornish House (''Lynn Meyer'')]]
==Compiled Nebraska Directory Listings==
Omaha, Nebraska, 1888-1893

==Educational & Professional Associations==
1886: architect, Council Bluffs, Iowa.[[#References|[8]]]

1887: clerk, Office of Supervising Architect, U.S. Treasury Department, Council Bluffs, Iowa.[[#References|[6]]]

1888-1893: architect, Omaha, Nebraska.

1888-1893: architect and principal, S. E. Maxon & Company, Omaha, Nebraska.[[#Notes|[b]]]

1890-1891: architect and principal, '''[[Maxon, Bourgeois & Cooke, Architects|Maxon, Bourgeois & Cooke]]''', Omaha, Nebraska.

1894-1900: architect, Portland City, Oregon.[[#References|[5][11]]]

==Buildings & Projects==
[[:File:HB13_w.jpg|'''Joel N. Cornish House (1886)''']], southwest corner 10th & Williams, Omaha, Nebraska.[[#References|[8]]] (DO09:0117-005)

Walnut Hill School (1888), 4370 Hamilton, Omaha, Nebraska.[[#References|[1]]]

A. W. Askwith House (1888), Council Bluffs, Iowa.[[#References|[3]]]

House (1891), 3049 Redick Ave., Omaha, Nebraska.[[#References|[2]]][[#Notes|[a]]] (DO09:0242-006)

Large Brick Building for Oregon State Deaf Mute School (1895), Salem, Oregon. [[#References|[10]]]

==Notes==
a. Listed as Mason in NEHBS and Omaha Architects Database.

b. In association with John H. Kent (from city directory), and residing in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

==References==
1.  Landmarks, Inc., ''An Inventory of Historic Omaha Buildings'' (Omaha: Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission, 1980), 191.

2.  City of Omaha Planning Department, Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission, Database, Query on Architects, May 20, 2002; courtesy of Lynn Meyer, Preservation Planner. 

3.  "Council Bluffs," ''The Inland Architect and News Record'' 12:3 (October, 1888), 29. Accessed via ''HaithaTrust.org'', February 4, 2016.

4.  1860 United States Census, s.v. “Stiles E. Maxon,’’ Grafton, Rensselaer County, New York, accessed via ''MyHeritage Library Edition'', February 4, 2016.

5.  1900 United States Census, s.v. “Stiles E. Maxon,” Portland City, Multnomah, Oregon, accessed via ''MyHeritage Library Edition'', February 4, 2016.

6.  “Official Register of the United States, 1887; Registry of Employees of the Treasury Department,” ''Federal Register'' (1907), 60. Accessed via ''MyHeritage Library Edition'', February 4, 2016.

7.  “S. E. Maxon,” ''FindAGrave.com'', March 18, 2010, accessed February 4, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49899188

8.  "Notice to Contractors," ''Omaha Daily Bee'' (August 16, 1886), 7:5. 

9. "Late S.E. Maxon Buried," ''Daily East Oregonian'' (October 8, 1914), 8. 

10. "Committee Report," ''Twelfth Biennial Report of the Oregon School for the Education of Deaf Mutes,'' State of Oregon, Frank C. Baker State Printer (1895).

11. Portland, Oregon city directory, 1894 & 1895. 

==Acknowledgements==
Attribution and citation for the Cornish House courtesy of Patrick Thompson, architectural historian, Restoration Exchange Omaha; email to D. Murphy, January 5, 2017.

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