National Register of Historic Places

Minthorn, Dr. Henry J., House (Herbert Hoover House)

Newberg, Yamhill County, Oregon
Listed
December 19, 2003
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
75001602

About this property

The Hoover–Minthorn House is a museum in Newberg, Oregon, United States, created from the residence of Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States. Hoover lived there from 1885 to 1891, with his uncle and aunt John and Laura Minthorn. The Minthorns were administrators of the Quaker school Friends Pacific Academy, now George Fox University, which Hoover and his brother Tad attended. The house, an Italianate design built in 1881 by Jesse Edwards, a Quaker merchant, is the first residence Edwards built and the oldest house still standing in what is now Newberg, Oregon. Representing vernacular design in the Willamette Valley, it was restored and opened to the public in 1955. It is located on 115 South River Street. Owned and operated as a house museum by the Oregon chapter of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, it has been furnished with late 19th-century period furnishings, including the bedroom furniture used by Hoover as a boy. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (as the Dr. Henry J. Minthorn House aka Herbert Hoover House) in 2003.

Location

115 S. River St.
Newberg, Yamhill County, Oregon
45.29957, -122.96882

Categories

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Sources

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When was Minthorn, Dr. Henry J., House (Herbert Hoover House) listed on the National Register?

Minthorn, Dr. Henry J., House (Herbert Hoover House) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 2003.

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Minthorn, Dr. Henry J., House (Herbert Hoover House) is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Minthorn, Dr. Henry J., House (Herbert Hoover House) is recorded as the industrial era.

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