Sam Brown House

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Sam Brown House
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Sam Brown House on Oregon Route 99E
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Location12878 Portland Rd. NE
Gervais, Oregon [1]
Coordinates 45°06′21″N122°53′14″W / 45.105840°N 122.887086°W / 45.105840; -122.887086
Built1856-1857
ArchitectSam Brown [2]
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP reference No. 74001697 [3]
Added to NRHPNovember 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]

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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.

See also

Sam Brown House in the 1880s Sam brown house 1880s.jpg
Sam Brown House in the 1880s

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References

  1. "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department. August 8, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 9, 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2008.
  2. Not the same Sam Brown as the person for whom the house was built.
  3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  4. "Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record—Samuel Brown House, Gervais vicinity, Marion County, OR". Library of Congress . Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  5. Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 36.
  6. "Sam Brown House - Gervais, Oregon - U.S. Route 99 - The Pacific Highway on". Waymarking.com. June 28, 2013. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  7. Gibbon, Boyd. National Geographic. "Life and Death on the Oregon Trail: The Itch to Move West". August 1986. Vol. 170, No. 2: 177.
  8. Kenneth Munford. "Artifacts Along US 99 East". Benton County Museum. Archived from the original on January 7, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2008.