Sam Brown House

Historic house in Oregon, United States

United States historic place


Sam Brown House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Sam Brown House on Oregon Route 99E
45°06′21″N 122°53′14″W / 45.105840°N 122.887086°W / 45.105840; -122.887086
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.

References

^ "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.