Sam Brown House | |
 Sam Brown House on Oregon Route 99E | |
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| Location | 12878 Portland Rd. NE Gervais, Oregon[2] |
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| Coordinates | 45°06′21″N 122°53′14″W / 45.105840°N 122.887086°W |
| Built | 1856-1857 |
| Architect | Sam Brown[3] |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001697[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 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]
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.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Not the same Sam Brown as the person for whom the house was built.
- ^ "Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record—Samuel Brown House, Gervais vicinity, Marion County, OR". Library of Congress. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
- ^ Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 36.
- ^ "Sam Brown House - Gervais, Oregon - U.S. Route 99 - The Pacific Highway on". Waymarking.com. June 28, 2013. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
- ^ Gibbon, Boyd. National Geographic. "Life and Death on the Oregon Trail: The Itch to Move West". August 1986. Vol. 170, No. 2: 177.
- ^ Kenneth Munford. "Artifacts Along US 99 East". Benton County Museum. Archived from the original on January 7, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2008.