Sam Brown House

Sam Brown House

Sam Brown House on Oregon Route 99E
Location 12878 Portland Rd. NE
Gervais, Oregon[1]
Coordinates 45°06′24″N 122°53′08″W / 45.106703°N 122.885615°W / 45.106703; -122.885615Coordinates: 45°06′24″N 122°53′08″W / 45.106703°N 122.885615°W / 45.106703; -122.885615
Built 1856-1857
Architect Sam Brown[2]
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 74001697[3]
Added to NRHP November 5, 1974

Sam Brown House (or Samuel Brown House) is a historic house in 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.

See also

Sam Brown House in the 1880s

References

  1. ↑ "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department. August 8, 2007. Retrieved November 27, 2008.
  2. ↑ Not the same Sam Brown as the person for whom the house was built.
  3. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  4. ↑ "Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record—Samuel Brown House, Gervais vicinity, Marion County, OR". Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  5. ↑ Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 36.
  6. ↑ http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMHDV7_Sam_Brown_House_Gervais_Oregon
  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. Retrieved 2008-11-15.


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