National Register of Historic Places listings in Multnomah County, Oregon facts for kids
The following list presents the full set of National Register of Historic Places listings in Multnomah County, Oregon. However, please see separate articles (links below) for listings in each of Portland's six quadrants.
The National Register of Historic Places recognizes buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, Oregon is home to over 2,000, and over one-fourth of those are found in Multnomah County. In turn, the large majority (over 90%) of the county's National Register entries are situated within Portland.
This list includes only sites within Multnomah County but outside the municipal boundaries of Portland. While some sites appear in this list (and corresponding lists for neighboring counties) showing "Portland" as a general locality, based on their mailing addresses, they are nevertheless beyond city limits.
Current listings
Portland
Over 500 National Register listings lie within the municipal boundaries of Portland. Although all of these sites lie within Multnomah County, their sheer number makes it prohibitive to include them all in the same table. To find detailed listings for each of Portland's five quadrants, click on a link below or on the map at the right.
Outside of Portland
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emanuel and Christina Anderson House |
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(#05000448) |
1420 SE Roberts Avenue 45°29′11″N 122°25′01″W / 45.486338°N 122.416815°W |
Gresham | |
| 2 | Rae Selling Berry Garden and House |
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(#02001637) |
11505 SW Summerville Avenue 45°26′33″N 122°39′43″W / 45.442380°N 122.661900°W |
Portland | |
| 3 | Bonneville Dam Historic District |
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(#86000727) |
Between Interstate 84 and Washington State Route 14 45°38′29″N 121°56′41″W / 45.641380°N 121.944600°W |
Bonneville (and North Bonneville, Washington) | Built in the 1930s to harness the Columbia River for power generation, this was the first hydroelectric dam with a hydraulic drop sufficient to produce 500,000 kW of hydropower. The NHL district covers the dam and other elements of the federal dam project, including the #1 powerhouse, navigation lock, fish ladder, and hatchery. |
| 4 | Bybee–Howell House |
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(#74001716) |
13901 NW Howell Park Road 45°38′29″N 122°49′08″W / 45.641375°N 122.818872°W |
Sauvie Island | |
| 5 | Columbia River Highway Historic District |
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(#83004168) |
Roughly along the south side of the Columbia River 45°32′23″N 122°14′39″W / 45.539747°N 122.244119°W |
Troutdale to The Dalles | Constructed between 1913 and 1922, this was the first scenic highway in the United States. Designed specifically to provide visitors access to the most outstanding of the scenic features of the Columbia River Gorge, the highway is also an outstanding example of modern highway development for its pioneering advances in road engineering. |
| 6 | Elliott R. Corbett House |
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(#96001070) |
01600 SW Greenwood Road 45°26′01″N 122°39′43″W / 45.433669°N 122.662073°W |
Portland vicinity | This 1915 Colonial Revival house is one of the finest examples of the residential work of Whitehouse and Fouilhoux, one of Portland's leading architecture firms in the second decade of the 20th century. It also represents the origins of the Dunthorpe neighborhood as a country-style suburb for Portland's elite. |
| 7 | H. L. and Gretchen Hoyt Corbett House |
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(#91000129) |
01405 SW Corbett Hill Circle 45°26′19″N 122°39′50″W / 45.438562°N 122.663987°W |
Portland | |
| 8 | Maurice Crumpacker House |
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(#92001378) |
12714 SW Iron Mountain Boulevard 45°25′59″N 122°39′30″W / 45.433017°N 122.658370°W |
Portland vicinity | |
| 9 | Fairview City Jail |
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(#16000290) |
120 1st Street 45°32′22″N 122°26′01″W / 45.539395°N 122.433726°W |
Fairview | |
| 10 | Roy and Leola Gangware House |
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(#90000284) |
4848 SW Humphrey Boulevard 45°30′17″N 122°43′35″W / 45.504596°N 122.726419°W |
Portland | |
| 11 | William Gedamke House |
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(#89001970) |
1304 E Powell Boulevard 45°29′52″N 122°25′06″W / 45.497678°N 122.418444°W |
Gresham | Prominently located near Gresham's original business core, this house is one of the finest expressions of the Queen Anne style in the city. It was constructed ca. 1900, about the time the first interurban trains reached Gresham from Portland. The design was based on a widely-circulated 1891 mail-order plan book by George F. Barber. |
| 12 | Andreas Graf House |
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(#80003356) |
44222 SE Loudon Road 45°30′40″N 122°12′29″W / 45.511019°N 122.208151°W |
Corbett | This house, originally built in the Carpenter Gothic style around 1885, was expanded and transformed into the more fashionable Queen Anne style around 1891. German immigrant Andreas Graf first staked his homestead claim in 1883, building the house using lumber he milled himself. Graf's descendants continued to own the house at least until 2014. |
| 13 | Gresham Carnegie Library |
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(#99001715) |
410 N Main Street 45°30′02″N 122°25′51″W / 45.500532°N 122.430715°W |
Gresham | |
| 14 | Charles Hunter Hamlin House |
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(#16000346) |
1322 SE 282nd Avenue 45°29′13″N 122°22′20″W / 45.486909°N 122.372295°W |
Gresham | |
| 15 | Fred Harlow House |
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(#84003078) |
726 E Historic Columbia River Highway 45°32′17″N 122°22′57″W / 45.538150°N 122.382532°W |
Troutdale | |
| 16 | Pierre Rossiter and Charlotte Hines House |
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(#02000660) |
02393 SW Military Road 45°26′34″N 122°39′17″W / 45.442694°N 122.654858°W |
Portland | |
| 17 | Dr. Herbert H. Hughes House |
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(#01000932) |
1229 W Powell Boulevard 45°29′51″N 122°26′40″W / 45.497403°N 122.444565°W |
Gresham | |
| 18 | Joseph Jacobberger Country House |
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(#10001171) |
5545 SW Sweetbriar Street 45°29′56″N 122°44′04″W / 45.498889°N 122.734444°W |
Portland | Leading Portland architect and civic activist Joseph Jacobberger (1869–1930) designed this Arts and Crafts style house for his family in 1916, and lived in it from 1917 until his death. He resided here through the height of his career, a period during which he designed over 250 commissions that shaped the face of Portland, including homes, schools, colleges, churches, a cathedral, commercial buildings, and others. |
| 19 | C. Hunt and Gertrude McClintock Lewis House |
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(#15000054) |
11645 SW Military Lane 45°26′27″N 122°39′12″W / 45.440781°N 122.653405°W |
Portland | |
| 20 | Louise Home Hospital and Residence Hall |
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(#87001556) |
722 NE 162nd Avenue 45°31′41″N 122°29′45″W / 45.528186°N 122.495725°W |
Gresham | |
| 21 | Donald and Ruth McGraw House |
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(#01000935) |
01845 SW Military Road 45°26′22″N 122°39′35″W / 45.439555°N 122.659709°W |
Portland | |
| 22 | Multnomah County Poor Farm |
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(#90000844) |
2126 SW Halsey Street 45°32′13″N 122°24′24″W / 45.537005°N 122.406784°W |
Troutdale | |
| 23 | Multnomah Falls Lodge and Footpath |
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(#81000512) |
Historic Columbia River Highway, northeast of Bridal Veil 45°34′38″N 122°07′02″W / 45.577247°N 122.117218°W |
Bridal Veil vicinity | |
| 24 | E. J. O'Donnell House |
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(#93001564) |
5535 SW Hewett Boulevard 45°30′16″N 122°44′04″W / 45.504446°N 122.734352°W |
Portland | |
| 25 | Charles and Fae Olson House |
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(#07000921) |
765 SW Walters Road 45°29′30″N 122°26′02″W / 45.491587°N 122.433768°W |
Gresham | This modern-styled home — designed and hand-built by the novice owner-occupant — embodies the breaks with tradition embraced by the generation returning from World War II. The main outlines of the plan were developed during mail correspondence between Charles Olson and his wife Fae while he was serving in the Pacific, and many features are patterned on the books and magazines available to him. |
| 26 | David and Marianne Ott House |
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(#15000167) |
2075 SE Palmblad Road 45°28′57″N 122°24′14″W / 45.482434°N 122.403952°W |
Gresham | |
| 27 | John V. G. Posey House |
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(#90001517) |
02107 SW Greenwood Road 45°26′11″N 122°39′26″W / 45.436487°N 122.657336°W |
Portland | |
| 28 | Dr. A. E. and Phila Jane Rockey House |
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(#85003036) |
10263 SW Riverside Drive 45°27′03″N 122°39′37″W / 45.450730°N 122.660399°W |
Portland | |
| 29 | Percy A. Smith House |
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(#91000135) |
01837 SW Greenwood Road 45°26′11″N 122°39′38″W / 45.436369°N 122.660433°W |
Portland | |
| 30 | Stanley C. E. Smith House |
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(#91000796) |
01905 SW Greenwood Road 45°26′11″N 122°39′31″W / 45.436441°N 122.658480°W |
Portland vicinity | |
| 31 | Springdale School |
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(#11000771) |
32405 E Historic Columbia River Highway 45°31′10″N 122°19′46″W / 45.519390°N 122.329580°W |
Corbett vicinity | |
| 32 | Sunken Village Archeological Site (35MU4) |
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(#89002455) |
Address restricted |
Sauvie Island | The archeological remains of this Chinookan village are unusually well preserved. This cosmopolitan people's complex hunter-gatherer economy and extensive trade network allowed them to establish one of the highest population densities in aboriginal North America, yet they left very few physical remains. The site has been subject to erosion and looting, problems which have been ameliorated by a protective layer of riprap. |
| 33 | Troutdale Methodist Episcopal Church |
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(#93000921) |
302 SE Harlow Street 45°32′21″N 122°23′10″W / 45.539180°N 122.386155°W |
Troutdale | |
| 34 | View Point Inn |
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(#85000367) |
40301 NE Larch Mountain Road 45°31′59″N 122°14′55″W / 45.532949°N 122.248482°W |
Corbett | Set on a high promontory with a sweeping view of the Columbia River Gorge, this is the only remaining example of several fashionable resort inns that developed in conjunction with the Columbia River Highway in the 1910s and 1920s. In addition to illustrating the rise of automobile touring in the United States, it is also the only inn produced by prominent Portland architect Carl L. Linde. |
| 35 | Vista House |
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(#74001705) |
Historic Columbia River Highway 45°32′22″N 122°14′40″W / 45.539579°N 122.244401°W |
Crown Point | |
| 36 | Whidden–Kerr House and Garden |
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(#88001039) |
11648 SW Military Lane 45°26′29″N 122°39′08″W / 45.441435°N 122.652169°W |
Portland | This 1901 house and carriage house, designed by William M. Whidden for himself and his family, is the "best expression" of the Prairie School by Whidden and Lewis, one of Portland's most prominent architectural firms of the period. Whidden's extensive gardens were further developed by Thomas and Mabel Kerr after they acquired the estate in 1911. |
| 37 | Theodore B. Wilcox Country Estate |
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(#93000019) |
3707 SW 52nd Place 45°29′46″N 122°43′46″W / 45.496238°N 122.729535°W |
Portland | |
| 38 | Jacob Zimmerman House |
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(#86001226) |
17111 NE Sandy Boulevard 45°32′55″N 122°29′14″W / 45.548621°N 122.487182°W |
Gresham |
Former listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bethel Baptist Church |
(#82003740) |
|
101 S. Main Street |
Gresham | ||
| 2 | Lewis H. Mills House |
(#97000135) |
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1350 SW Military Road 45°26′24″N 122°39′59″W / 45.43992°N 122.6663°W |
Portland |
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Oregon
- Listings in neighboring counties: Clackamas, Clark, Columbia, Hood River, Skamania, Washington
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Oregon
- Historic preservation
- History of Oregon
- Lists of Oregon-related topics
External links
- Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, National Register Program
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places site
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