Richard Sundeleaf

Richard Wilhelm Sundeleaf (February 8, 1900 – March 8, 1987) was an American architect from Portland, Oregon, United States. A number of the buildings he designed are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Early life and education Sundeleaf was born in Portland's Goose Hollow neighborhood in 1900, and moved at age 6 to a neighborhood just north of Sellwood that was then known as City View Park. After graduating from Washington High School in 1918 he attended the University of Oregon's School of Architecture, in Eugene, graduating in 1923. He trained in the Beaux Arts style of traditional design. In the 1940s, his style changed somewhat when he became a proponent of the Streamline Moderne style, "in which the spirit of the machine age and the concepts of aerodynamics shaped the design of the building", The Oregonian wrote in its obituary of Sundeleaf.

In 1935, Sundeleaf designed a Tudor-style English cottage for the University of Oregon chapter of Chi Psi in Eugene, Oregon. The Chi Psi Fraternity House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1993. Many of Sundeleaf's English cottages would be constructed in suburban Portland.

Sundeleaf lived in Lake Oswego, Oregon, from 1940 until his death, and he designed many homes in that area. Around 1930, Jantzen Knitting Mills co-founder Carl Jantzen also commissioned Sundeleaf to design his home in Oswego (now Lake Oswego), and the now-NRHP-listed Carl C. Jantzen Estate used Sundeleaf's designs for its boathouse and bridge.

Personal With his wife, Mildred, to whom he was married from 1925 until his death, Sundeleaf also owned a ranch in southwestern Montana, acquired in 1956.

Memorials In 2013, the City of Lake Oswego named a new park at 120 State Street Sundeleaf Plaza, in honor of Richand Sundeleaf.

Works Residential Dr. Walter Black House, 1125 Maple St., Lake Oswego, Oregon, NRHP-listed Chi Psi Fraternity House, 1018 Hilyard St., Eugene, Oregon, NRHP-listed 1957 Wilson-Chambers Mortuary (1932), aka "Little Chapel of the Chimes", 430 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, NRHP-listed