Sam Brown House | |
![]() Sam Brown House on Oregon Route 99E | |
Location | 12878 Portland Rd. NE Gervais, Oregon [1] |
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Coordinates | 45°06′21″N122°53′14″W / 45.105840°N 122.887086°W |
Built | 1856-1857 |
Architect | Sam Brown [2] |
Architectural style | Classical Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 74001697 [3] |
Added to NRHP | November 5, 1974 |
Sam Brown House (or Samuel Brown House) is a historic house near Gervais, Oregon, United States built in 1857 by Oregon pioneer and state senator Samuel Brown (1821-1886). [4] [5] The house is located on the French Prairie on the Peter Depot land claim and is believed to be the first in Oregon to be designed by an architect. [6]
The house was featured in the August 1986 issue of National Geographic Magazine , which described Samuel Brown as a Missourian who dug 62 pounds of gold in California and later moved with his wife to Oregon. The couple filed a Donation Land Claim and acquired more than 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) and built their house near what is now the city of Gervais. [7]
It served as a stage stop and housed three generations of the Browns. The son of the original Samuel Brown, Sam H. Brown, was a state senator and unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1934 and 1938. [8]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.