National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Oregon facts for kids
This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Oregon, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them. The National Register recognizes places 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 50 of those are found in Washington County.
Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aloha Farmhouse |
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(#14000812) |
1080 SW 197th Avenue 45°30′43″N 122°52′45″W / 45.511997°N 122.879067°W |
Beaverton | |
| 2 | Beaverton Downtown Historic District |
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(#86000037) |
Roughly bounded by SW Canyon Road and SW East, Washington, 2nd, and Watson Streets 45°29′15″N 122°48′20″W / 45.487377°N 122.805585°W |
Beaverton | Beaverton's downtown commercial core remains largely intact as a pedestrian-oriented business district constructed along the street pattern from the city's earliest plats. Significant buildings include a handful from the city's first decades (1868–1920) and a larger number from the period of profound transformation between the world wars (1920–1940). |
| 3 | Silas Jacob N. Beeks House |
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(#84003100) |
Martin Road 45°32′53″N 123°04′28″W / 45.54813°N 123.0744°W |
Forest Grove vicinity | |
| 4 | Stephen and Parthena M. Blank House |
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(#88001035) |
2117 A Street 45°31′17″N 123°06′50″W / 45.52126°N 123.1138°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 5 | M. E. Blanton House |
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(#89000123) |
3980 SW 170th Avenue 45°29′27″N 122°51′06″W / 45.4907°N 122.8518°W |
Aloha | |
| 6 | Clark Historic District |
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(#02000617) |
Roughly bounded by 18th and 16th Avenues, A and Elm Streets 45°30′57″N 123°06′33″W / 45.51595°N 123.1092°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 7 | Benjamin Cornelius Jr. House |
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(#88001034) |
2314 19th Avenue 45°31′06″N 123°06′22″W / 45.51835°N 123.1062°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 8 | Harry A. Crosley House |
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(#93000919) |
2125 A Street 45°31′17″N 123°06′50″W / 45.52134°N 123.1138°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 9 | Doriot–Rider Log House |
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(#08000554) |
14850 SW 132nd Terrace 45°24′46″N 122°48′44″W / 45.41285278°N 122.8122083°W |
Tigard | |
| 10 | Dundee Lodge |
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(#85001186) |
South Road 45°27′34″N 123°11′57″W / 45.4594°N 123.1991°W |
Gaston vicinity | |
| 11 | Augustus Fanno Farmhouse |
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(#84003103) |
8405 SW Creekside Place 45°27′32″N 122°47′35″W / 45.458872°N 122.793167°W |
Beaverton | After emigrating across the Oregon Trail in 1846, Augustus Fanno settled this land claim — the twelfth claim filed at the Oregon City Land Office and the first in what is now Washington County. Fanno built the New England-style farmhouse with neoclassical details in 1859. The farm continued in productive operation until the 1940s, and the family occupied the house until the 1970s. |
| 12 | Adam and Johanna Feldman House |
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(#93000013) |
8808 SW Rambler Lane 45°28′03″N 122°46′03″W / 45.46748°N 122.7675°W |
Portland | |
| 13 | First Church of Christ Scientist |
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(#93001505) |
1904 Pacific Avenue 45°31′11″N 123°06′49″W / 45.51966°N 123.1136°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 14 | Imbrie Farm |
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(#77001117) |
21860 NW Imbrie Drive 45°32′57″N 122°54′02″W / 45.54919°N 122.9005°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 15 | Belle Ainsworth Jenkins Estate |
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(#78002327) |
8005 SW Grabhorn Road 45°27′37″N 122°53′29″W / 45.460264°N 122.891372°W |
Beaverton | Ralph and Belle Jenkins began construction on this 68-acre (28 ha) estate in 1912 as an escape from the city. They included fine equestrian facilities, as well as gardens, a greenhouse, an ornamental pool, a tea house, a carriage house, and a water tower. After the Jenkinses died the property changed hands several times, and was finally acquired as a public park in 1976. |
| 16 | Zula Linklater House |
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(#84003108) |
230 NE 2nd Avenue 45°31′28″N 122°59′16″W / 45.52436°N 122.9879°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 17 | Isaac Macrum House |
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(#98001120) |
2225 12th Avenue 45°30′39″N 123°06′29″W / 45.51076°N 123.108°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 18 | Manning–Kamna Farm |
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(#07001077) |
29375 Evergreen Road 45°33′02″N 122°58′45″W / 45.550536°N 122.979067°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 19 | Andrew Jackson and Sarah Jane Masters House |
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(#15000615) |
20650 SW Kinnaman Road 45°29′20″N 122°53′23″W / 45.488805°N 122.889701°W |
Aloha | |
| 20 | Malcolm McDonald House |
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(#14001160) |
22180 NW Birch Street 45°31′39″N 122°54′17″W / 45.527398°N 122.904675°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 21 | C. W. Mertz Rental House #2 |
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(#05000852) |
1933 16th Avenue 45°30′52″N 123°06′48″W / 45.51456°N 123.1133°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 22 | Thomas Michos House |
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(#91001552) |
4400 SW Scholls Ferry Road 45°29′19″N 122°44′46″W / 45.48872°N 122.746°W |
Portland | |
| 23 | Oak Hills Historic District |
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(#13000482) |
Roughly bounded by NW. West Union & Cornell Rds., NW 143rd Ave., Bethany Blvd. 45°32′20″N 122°49′57″W / 45.538931°N 122.832492°W |
Beaverton | |
| 24 | Old Scotch Church |
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(#74001723) |
Scotch Church Road 45°34′22″N 122°59′40″W / 45.57281°N 122.9945°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 25 | Ole and Polly Oleson Farmhouse |
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(#91000140) |
5430 SW Ames Way 45°28′51″N 122°44′49″W / 45.48075°N 122.746847°W |
Portland vicinity | |
| 26 | Painter's Woods Historic District |
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(#09000360) |
Centered on 15th Avenue and Birch Street, including portions of 12th, 13th, and 14th Avenues, and Cedar and Douglas Streets 45°30′47″N 123°06′31″W / 45.513192°N 123.108497°W |
Forest Grove | This residential area was the earliest modern subdivision addition to Forest Grove, and represents the town's transition from an agrarian community to a small-urban center. The district includes well-preserved examples of a broad range of architectural styles in currency between 1880 and 1948. |
| 27 | John and Elsie Parsons House |
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(#05000853) |
1825 Mountain View Lane 45°31′04″N 123°04′33″W / 45.51785°N 123.0758°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 28 | Harold Wass Ray House |
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(#93001504) |
5611 NE Elam Young Parkway 45°31′51″N 122°55′20″W / 45.530789°N 122.922297°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 29 | Richard and Helen Rice House |
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(#06001096) |
26385 NW Groveland Drive 45°34′29″N 122°56′54″W / 45.57477°N 122.9482°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 30 | Rice–Gates House |
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(#80003391) |
308 SE Walnut Street 45°31′03″N 122°59′10″W / 45.51755°N 122.986°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 31 | James D. Robb House |
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(#88001033) |
2606 17th Avenue 45°30′57″N 123°06′03″W / 45.51576°N 123.1008°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 32 | Schanen–Zolling House |
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(#85003340) |
6750 SW Oleson Road 45°28′17″N 122°44′58″W / 45.47131°N 122.7495°W |
Portland | |
| 33 | Edward Schulmerich House |
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(#91000050) |
614 E Main Street 45°31′21″N 122°58′49″W / 45.52257°N 122.9804°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 34 | Shaver–Bilyeu House |
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(#93000014) |
16445 SW 92nd Avenue 45°24′04″N 122°46′17″W / 45.401°N 122.7714°W |
Tigard | |
| 35 | Albert S. Sholes House |
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(#82003755) |
1599 S Alpine Street 45°31′09″N 123°03′08″W / 45.51919°N 123.0523°W |
Cornelius | |
| 36 | Charles Shorey House |
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(#89000518) |
905 E Main Street 45°31′20″N 122°58′31″W / 45.52224°N 122.9754°W |
Hillsboro | |
| 37 | Alvin T. Smith House |
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(#74001721) |
S Elm Street 45°30′16″N 123°06′15″W / 45.50454°N 123.1041°W |
Forest Grove vicinity | |
| 38 | John Sweek House |
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(#74001724) |
18815 SW Boones Ferry Road 45°23′03″N 122°45′54″W / 45.384233°N 122.764964°W |
Tualatin | |
| 39 | Dr. W. R. and Eunice Taylor House |
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(#05000851) |
2212 A Street 45°31′21″N 123°06′50″W / 45.52258°N 123.1139°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 40 | John W. Tigard House |
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(#79003739) |
10310 SW Canterbury Lane 45°24′53″N 122°47′00″W / 45.4146°N 122.7833°W |
Tigard | |
| 41 | Tualatin Academy |
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(#74001722) |
2043 College Way 45°31′13″N 123°06′39″W / 45.5203°N 123.11074°W |
Forest Grove | Today named Old College Hall, this 1850 building was the earliest home of what grew into Pacific University. Tracing its earliest roots to an orphanage operated by Tabitha Brown and Harvey L. Clark, Tualatin Academy received its official charter in 1849 as the first act of the Oregon Territorial Legislature, and awarded Oregon's first bachelor's degree in 1863. Old College Hall remains the oldest educational building in the West. |
| 42 | J. S. and Melinda Waggener Farmstead |
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(#03000693) |
34680 SW Firdale Road 45°26′37″N 123°02′29″W / 45.44359°N 123.0415°W |
Cornelius | |
| 43 | Walker Naylor Historic District |
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(#11000155) |
Gayles Way, Covey Run Dr., A St., and 21st Ave. 45°31′23″N 123°06′56″W / 45.523056°N 123.115556°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 44 | J. F. Watkins House |
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(#93000448) |
5419 SW Scholls Ferry Road 45°28′51″N 122°45′36″W / 45.48091°N 122.7601°W |
Portland | |
| 45 | West Union Baptist Church |
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(#74001725) |
West Union Road 45°34′25″N 122°54′24″W / 45.57367°N 122.9066°W |
West Union | Built in 1853, this is the oldest Baptist church building in Oregon, and one of the earliest surviving pioneer churches in the state. The West Union congregation, organized in 1844, was the first Baptist church west of the Rocky Mountains. |
| 46 | Woods and Caples General Store |
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(#85003028) |
2020 Main Street 45°31′12″N 123°06′44″W / 45.52002°N 123.1121°W |
Forest Grove | |
| 47 | John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House |
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(#08001264) |
12050 NW Cornell Road 45°31′36″N 122°48′03″W / 45.526611°N 122.800867°W |
Portland vicinity | The Young family settled in this saltbox house in the 1860s when they acquired an interest in a nearby lumber mill, which became central to the local Cedar Mill community. In 1874, John Young opened Cedar Mill's first general store and post office in the house, which lasted until 1881. The house is the oldest remaining structure in Cedar Mill. |
Former listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington County Jail |
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(#86002090) |
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872 NE 28th Avenue (former) 45°31′36″N 122°48′03″W / 45.526611°N 122.800867°W |
Hillsboro | Part or all of the jail building was moved to the Washington County Museum. |
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Oregon
- Listings in neighboring counties: Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Tillamook, Yamhill
- 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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