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The museum was founded by Donald M. Kerr, a native of Portland, Oregon. [1] [2] Kerr had a passion for natural history that inspired the creation of the museum. [1]In 1974, Kerr established the Western Natural History Institute, and the High Desert Museum was an outgrowth of the institute opening in 1982.
There are listings in all of Oregon's 36 counties. The National Register of Historic Places recognizes buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to more than 2,000 NRHP listings. [3]
January 27, 2000 (Roughly bounded by SW 2nd, 6th, and Jefferson Streets, and the Highway 20/34 Bypass: Corvallis: Located on several of Corvallis's earliest plats, the historic houses in this residential district present a window into the domestic aspects of the city's development from 1870 to 1949, providing a full industrial, socioeconomic, and architectural profile of that period.
Operated by the East County Historical Organization, late 19th-century house [39] High Desert Museum: Bend: Deschutes: Central: Multiple Includes live animals and natural history exhibits, pioneer life and seasonal living history 1880 ranch, early 1860s town, Native American exhibits, antique vehicles, trails Historic Barlow House: Barlow ...
The 1952 home is the main part of the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals. It was the first ranch style home listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon. The William F. Wayman-designed house was built of Arizona flagstone on the exterior and wood native to Oregon, including curly maple and myrtlewood.
April 13, 1992 (Mount Hood National Forest [a: Wamic to Rhododendron: Beginning with its construction by Sam Barlow in 1846, this toll road provided the first overland connection for wagons between The Dalles and Oregon City over Mount Hood, and offered a majority of Oregon Trail emigrants an alternative to the hazardous raft passage down the Columbia River from The Dalles to Fort Vancouver.
Location of Marion County in Oregon. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Oregon, United States, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
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