In 1852 Wilson McClendon Tigard, his wife Mary Ann and their young son, John, traveled across the plains from Arkansas on the Oregon Trail. They settled on a Donation Land Claim of 320 acres. The area in which they settled was called East Butte, then later...

The Pittock Mansion was home to Portland pioneers Henry and Georgiana Pittock from 1914 to 1919. During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, their lives and work paralleled the growth of Portland from a small Northwest town site to a thriving city with a quarter...

The Hoover-Minthorn House was built in 1881 by Jesse Edwards and is the first residence built and still standing in what is now Newberg, Oregon. For the years 1885-1889, the house was the home of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States.

the Watts House was designed and built by James Grant Watts for his winsome wife Rose Arizona Ewing Watts and their three children (Ray, Hazel and Helen) in 1902. James Loring was born in 1904, the same year Ray died (age 13). It has been at the center of the...

This beautiful small museum was formerly the George Wise family farmhouse, built on Lake Road in 1865. Later owners of the house, United Grocers, donated the structure to the Milwaukie Historical Society. The historic house was moved and restored thanks to the...

Built to honor early pioneer mothers, the cabin is constructed of peeled hand-hewn logs with a massive stone fireplace at one end of the main living room. The cabin has a sleeping loft and two small bedrooms. It is a replica, much enlarged, of the type of log cabin...

On a hillside west of the entrance to Champoeg State Heritage Area, above the banks of the Willamette River, stands the home of Robert Newell. A central figure in Oregon statehood and first Speaker of the House, he resided at Champoeg for nineteen years beginning in...

The McLoughlin House stands today as a reminder of the great contribution Dr. John McLoughlin made to the settlement of the Oregon Country. In 1909, it was threatened with demolition, but a group of concerned local citizens formed the McLoughlin Memorial Association...

While at the exhibit, enjoy a guided tour of this charming 1908 four-square which is the former home of Harley C. Stevens and Mary Elizabeth Stevens, both part of Oregon City's founding community. The three-story home contains 15 furnished rooms and features: * fine...

n 1910, the Ermatinger House was among those historic homes from Oregon City's earliest years which were saved from encroaching development around Willamette Falls by being moved.