National Register of Historic Places listings in Multnomah County, Oregon

The following list presents the full set of National Register of Historic Places listings in Multnomah County, Oregon. However, please see separate articles (links below) for listings in each of Portland's five quadrants.

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) recognizes buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States.[1] Out of over 80,000 NRHP sites nationwide,[2] Oregon is home to approximately 1,900,[3] and over one-fourth of those are found in Multnomah County. In turn, the large majority (over 90%) of the county's NRHP sites are situated within Portland.

This list includes only NRHP sites within Multnomah County but outside the municipal boundaries of Portland. While some sites appear in this list (and corresponding lists for neighboring counties) showing "Portland" as a general locality, they are nevertheless beyond city limits.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 30, 2011.[4]

Contents

Current listings

[5] Site name[6] Image Date listed[6] Location[7] City or Town[8] Summary
1 Emanuel and Christina Anderson House 02005-05-22May 22, 2005 1420 SE Roberts Avenue

 Gresham
2 Rae Selling Berry Garden and House 02002-12-31December 31, 2002 11505 SW Summerville Avenue

 Portland
3 Bonneville Dam Historic District 01986-04-09April 9, 1986 Between Interstate 84 and Washington State Route 14[6]

 Bonneville (and North Bonneville, Washington) Built in the 1930s to harness the Columbia River for power generation, this was the first hydroelectric dam with a hydraulic drop sufficient to produce 500,000 kW of hydropower. The NHL district covers the dam and other elements of the federal dam project, including the #1 powerhouse, navigation lock, fish ladder, and hatchery.[9]
4 Bybee–Howell House 01974-11-05November 5, 1974 13901 NW Howell Park Road

 Sauvie Island[6]
5 Columbia River Highway Historic District 01983-12-12December 12, 1983 Linear district in Multnomah, Hood River, and Wasco counties
(approx.)
 Troutdale to The Dalles[10] Constructed between 1913 and 1922, this was the first scenic highway in the United States. Designed specifically to provide visitors access to the outstanding scenic features of the Columbia River Gorge, the highway is also an outstanding example of modern highway development for its pioneering advances in road engineering, and is the single most important contribution to the fields of civil engineering and landscape architecture by Samuel C. Lancaster.[9]
6 Elliott R. Corbett House 01996-10-03October 3, 1996 01600 SW Greenwood Road

 Portland vicinity
7 H.L. Corbett and Gretchen Hoyt House 01991-02-28February 28, 1991 01405 SW Corbett Hill Circle

 Portland
8 Maurice Crumpacker House 01992-10-23October 23, 1992 12714 SW Iron Mountain Boulevard

 Portland vicinity
9 Roy and Leola Gangware House 01990-02-23February 23, 1990 4848 SW Humphrey Boulevard

 Portland
10 William Gedamke House 01989-11-13November 13, 1989 1304 E Powell Boulevard

 Gresham
11 Andreas Graf House 01980-11-13November 13, 1980 44222 SE Loudon Road

 Corbett
12 Gresham Carnegie Library 02000-01-24January 24, 2000 410 N Main Street

 Gresham
13 Fred Harlow House 01984-02-16February 16, 1984 726 E Columbia Street

 Troutdale
14 Pierre Rossiter and Charlotte Hines House 02002-06-20June 20, 2002 02393 SW Military Road

 Portland
15 Dr. Herbert H. Hughes House 02001-09-05September 5, 2001 1229 W Powell Boulevard

 Gresham
16 Louise Home Hospital and Residence Hall 01987-09-10September 10, 1987 722 NE 162nd Avenue

 Gresham
17 Donald and Ruth McGraw House 02001-09-03September 3, 2001 01845 SW Military Road

 Portland
18 Multnomah County Poor Farm 01990-06-01June 1, 1990 2126 SW Halsey Street

 Troutdale
19 Multnomah Falls Lodge and Footpath 01981-04-22April 22, 1981 Historic Columbia River Highway, northeast of Bridal Veil[11]

 Bridal Veil vicinity
20 E.J. O'Donnell House 01994-01-28January 28, 1994 5535 SW Hewett Boulevard

 Portland
21 Charles and Fae Olson House 02007-09-07September 7, 2007 765 SW Walters Road
 Gresham This modern-styled home — designed and hand-built by the novice owner-occupant — embodies the breaks with tradition embraced by the generation returning from World War II. The main outlines of the plan were developed during mail correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Olson while he was serving in the Pacific, and many features are patterned on the books and magazines available to him.[12]
22 John V. G. Posey House 01990-10-17October 17, 1990 02107 SW Greenwood Road

 Portland
23 Dr. A.E. and Phila Jane Rockey House 01985-12-02December 2, 1985 10263 SW Riverside Drive

 Portland
24 Percy A. Smith House 01991-02-22February 22, 1991 01837 SW Greenwood Road

 Portland
25 Springdale School 02011-10-25October 25, 2011 32405 E. Historic Columbia River Highway
 Corbett vicinity
26 Stanley C.E. Smith House 01991-06-19June 19, 1991 01905 SW Greenwood Road

 Portland vicinity
27 Sunken Village Archeological Site (35MU4) 01989-12-20December 20, 1989 Address restricted[13]
 Sauvie Island[14] The archeological remains of this Chinookan village are unusually well preserved. This cosmopolitan people's complex hunter-gatherer economy and extensive trade network allowed them to establish one of the highest population densities in aboriginal North America, yet they left very few physical remains. The site has been subject to erosion and looting, problems which have been ameliorated by a protective layer of riprap.[14][15]
28 Troutdale Methodist Episcopal Church 01993-09-09September 9, 1993 302 SE Harlow Street

 Troutdale
29 View Point Inn 01985-02-28February 28, 1985 40301 NE Larch Mountain Road

 Corbett Set on a high promontory with a sweeping view of the Columbia River Gorge, this is the only remaining example of several fashionable resort inns that developed in conjunction with the Columbia River Highway in the 1910s and 1920s. In addition to illustrating the rise of automobile touring in the United States, it is also the only inn produced by prominent Portland architect Carl L. Linde.[16]
30 Vista House 01974-11-05November 5, 1974 Historic Columbia River Highway

 Crown Point
31 Whidden–Kerr House and Garden 01988-10-13October 13, 1988 11648 SW Military Lane

 Portland
32 Theodore B. Wilcox Country Estate 01993-02-19February 19, 1993 3707 SW 52nd Place

 Portland
33 Jacob Zimmerman House 01986-06-05June 5, 1986 17111 NE Sandy Boulevard

 Gresham

Former listings

Landmark name Image Date removed Location City or Town Summary
1 Lewis H. Mills House 02010-05-24 May 24, 2010 1350 SW Military Road
 Portland Listed February 21, 1997

Portland

Over 500 NRHP listings lie within the legal boundaries of Portland. Although all of these sites lie within Multnomah County, their sheer number makes it prohibitive to include them all in the same table. To find detailed listings for each of Portland's five quadrants, click on a link below or on the map at the right.

Lists by quadrant: North • Northeast • Northwest • Southeast • Southwest


See also

References

  1. ^ National Park Service (1997), How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, National Register Bulletins, http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/publications/bulletins/nrb15/nrb15.pdf, retrieved 2008-12-17 
  2. ^ National Park Service, "National Register Research", National Register of Historic Places, http://www.nps.gov/nr/research/index.htm, retrieved 2008-12-17 
  3. ^ Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (2008-08-08), Oregon National Register List, http://www.oregonheritage.org/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf, retrieved 2008-10-09 
  4. ^ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on December 30, 2011.
  5. ^ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words (e.g. last name). Various colorings (defined here) differentiate standalone NRHP sites from NRHP sites that also hold status as National Historic Landmarks, historic districts, National Historical Parks, or hold other historic designations.
  6. ^ a b c d National Park Service, National Register Information System, http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/research/nris.htm, retrieved 2008-10-15 
  7. ^ Text: Except as otherwise noted, all entries are drawn from: Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (2008-08-08), Oregon National Register List, http://www.oregonheritage.org/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf .
    Coordinates: Except as otherwise noted, all entries are drawn from either: (a) Google Earth KMZ files available at: National Park Service. "National Register Information System". http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/research/nris.htm.  (b) A Google Earth search for the given street address. In limited instances, editors have adjusted coordinates for accuracy.
  8. ^ Except as otherwise noted, all entries are drawn from: Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (2008-08-08), Oregon National Register List, http://www.oregonheritage.org/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf, retrieved 2008-10-09  In limited instances where the source locates the site in the "vicinity" of a city or town, editors may have removed the "vicinity" qualifier in the interest of clarity. In other instances, editors may similarly have added a "vicinity" qualifier.
  9. ^ a b National Park Service, National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database, http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/default.cfm, retrieved 2007-10-14 
  10. ^ Smith, Dwight A. (October 3, 1983), National Register of Historic Places Inventory–Nomination Form: Columbia River Highway Historic District, OCLC 12786411 
  11. ^ National Park Service, National Register Information System, http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/research/nris.htm, retrieved 2010-09-09 
  12. ^ Franzen, Robin (2008-05-26), "Building their American dream in a time of war", The Oregonian (Portland), http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1211675139184710.xml&coll=7, retrieved 2009-02-11 
  13. ^ The NPS and SHPO do not publicly release specific location data for these sites in order to inhibit archeological looting.
  14. ^ a b National Park Service, National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database, http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/default.cfm, retrieved 2007-10-19 
  15. ^ Bogan, David (2006), "Sauvie Island's "Sunken Village" - A Special Place Forever Preserved?", Cultural Heritage Courier 2006 (2), http://oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/docs/courier_206.2.pdf .
  16. ^ Dodds, Linda (June 30, 1984), National Register of Historic Places Inventory–Nomination Form: View Point Inn 

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