National Register of Historic Places listings in Benton County, Oregon
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This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Oregon, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them. The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States.[1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide,[2]Oregon is home to over 2,000,[3] and 57 of those are found in Benton County.
Located on several of Corvallis's earliest plats, the historic houses in this residential district present a window into the domestic aspects of the city's development from 1870 to 1949, providing a full industrial, socioeconomic, and architectural profile of that period.[7]
This hotel building is a distinctive example of the Italian Renaissance style by architectsHoughtaling and Dougan. Reflecting the progressive spirit of the early 1920s, the hotel was financed through public subscription and built by local contractors. Opening in 1925, it became social and business center of Corvallis for over 30 years.[12]
Previously listed on the National Register in 1979, and removed in 1989 upon relocation from the Monroe vicinity to Oregon State University property in Corvallis.
This excellent example of an airplane bungalow, built from planbooks in 1922 during a period of rapid growth in Corvallis, is probably the only house of that style ever constructed in the city.[14]
↑ Important sources differ regarding the form of the Hotel Benton's name. Databases from the National Park Service (NPS)[8][9] and Oregon State Historic Preservation Office[10] list the name as "Benton Hotel", but the NPS's official National Register listing announcement in the Federal Register[11] uses "Hotel Benton". The National Register nomination documentation for the hotel[12] gives "Hotel Benton" as the historic name and "Benton Hotel" as the common name. This article adopts "Hotel Benton" because the historic name emphasizes the historic significance of the hotel, and because the nomination form and Federal Register announcement are sources of a more foundational nature than the databases.
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The Hotel Benton, or Benton Hotel, is a historic former hotel in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Constructed from 1924 to 1925, the building represents a distinctive example of the Italian Renaissance style by Portland architects Houghtaling and Dougan. It is one of several Oregon buildings the firm designed in the revival styles popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
↑ Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon Historic Sites Database, retrieved August 6, 2015. Note that a simple count of National Register records in this database returns a slightly higher total than actual listings, due to duplicate records. A close reading of detailed query results is necessary to arrive at the precise count.
1 2 Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
↑ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
↑ "Department of the Interior, National Park Service: National Register of Historic Places; Annual Listing of Historic Properties", 48 FR8626 (March 1, 1983), at 8658.
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