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The Elliott R. Corbett House is a historic home built in the Colonial Revival style in 1915, and located in the Dunthorpe neighborhood south of Portland, ...
They had one daughter, Eleanor Blanche Mary Corbett, and she married in 1858 Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet. [10] She inherited Elsham Hall in 1868 and so brought the house to the Astley family. Their eldest son also took the additional name of Corbett and so became Sir Francis Edmund George Astley-Corbett, 4th Baronet.
On 22 May 1858, he married an heiress, Eleanor Blanche Mary Corbett, of Elsham Hall, North Lincolnshire. Eleanor (died 7 June 1897) was the daughter of Thomas George Corbett (died 5 July 1868) and wife (married 15 December 1837) Lady Mary Noel Beauclerk (28 December 1810 – 29 November 1850), daughter of the 8th Duke of St Albans.
Corbett House may refer to: Beatty-Corbett House, Ivanhoe, North Carolina, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Elliott R. Corbett House, near Portland, Oregon, NRHP-listed; H. L. and Gretchen Hoyt Corbett House, near Portland, Oregon, listed on the NRHP in Multnomah County, Oregon
Sen. Henry W. Corbett. Elliott Corbett's grandfather US Senator Henry W. Corbett (1827 – 1903) died when Elliott was 18. Henry W. Corbett had been born in Massachusetts and started the Corbett family dynasty in Oregon when he arrived at the tiny settlement of Portland in 1851, having crossed the Isthmus of Panama which he had reached by boat from New York.
The house was built in 1915 and 1916 by Corbett, who had married Gretchen Hoyt in 1908. It was a large two-story home with 7,000 square feet (650 m2) of interior space. In addition to the family living areas, there was a two-story servants' wing connected to the main house.
The house was originally built in 1927 and redesigned in 1984 by businessman Mark Slotkin. The property boasts a pool and private tennis court, alongside a two-story guesthouse and two-car garage.
Thomas Corbett was the son of William Corbett (died 1832) of Darnhall and his wife Jane Eleanor, daughter of George Ainslie (British Army officer, died 1804).His mother's uncles included Colonel Sir Philip Ainslie of Pilton and Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, MP and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.