National Register of Historic Places

Recently Listed Oregon Properties in the National Register of Historic Places

• Juniper House in Portland, Multnomah County, listed in February 2025. Originally constructed as a single-family residence in 1902, Juniper House co-founders John Trevitts, Doug Foland, and Jan Weyeneth converted the building into Oregon’s first HIV/AIDS end-of-life care home in 1987. From May 1987 to September 1989, Juniper House filled a critical void in Oregon's healthcare system during a period marked by widespread stigma and systemic discrimination of people with HIV/AIDS. The care facility offered medical care as well as emotional support and a sense of peace, community, and normalcy for residents. Advocacy and education were also integral components of the mission of Juniper House; during its operation, press and local news outlets were invited to the house, leading to newspaper articles and documentary features on KGW-TV and Oregon Public Broadcasting that reached broad audiences in the late 1980s. Juniper House’s influence was crucial in shaping public opinion and responses to HIV/AIDS in Oregon, and it inspired the establishment of several similar end-of-life care facilities around the state in the late 1980s and after.  View the nomination.
  
  
• Burkes-Belluschi House in Portland, Multnomah County, listed in February 2025. Situated on a hillside in northwest Portland’s Westover Terrace subdivision, the Burkes-Belluschi House was designed by Pietro Belluschi for Dr. D. C. Burkes and his wife Genevieve in 1944; due to World War II shortages, construction was not completed until 1948. In designing the house Belluschi worked closely with the Burkes, who admired modernist architecture and the International Style in particular. As one of the leaders in developing the Northwest Regional Style, Belluschi was sensitive to the house’s siting as well as its materials. The result was a house with expansive city views, deep eaves, woven wood ceilings, and stone fireplaces. This is Belluschi’s only residential design in western Oregon to display elements of both the International and Northwest Regional styles of architecture. After retiring as dean of M.I.T.’s School of Architecture and Planning in 1965, Pietro Belluschi and his wife Marjorie purchased the house from Genevieve Burkes and made it their last personal residence. View the nomination.
  
  
• Dr. Edward and Anne McLean House in West Linn, Clackamas County, listed in January 2025. Located on the southern bank of the Willamette River in West Linn’s Bolton Neighborhood, the McLean House was designed and constructed by the Henderson-Bankus Company for Dr. Edward and Anne McLean in 1927. The house exhibits a modified or eclectic Colonial Revival style with its symmetrical side-gabled form, original multilight wood windows, entry portico, and English Cottage-style rolled-edge roof. While notable for its architectural merit, the McLean House is also significant for its association with the Physicians’ Association of Clackamas County (PACC), a very early Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) using the prepaid medical care foundation model. Dr. Edward McLean, working from his home office, collaborated with Dr. William O. Steele, and Dr. John (“Jack”) G. P. Cleland to develop the organization between 1932 and 1938, in the depths of the Great Depression. Their mission was to provide health care coverage that was high quality, affordable, and designed to fit the needs of area residents—many of them millworkers and their families. The PACC was unique for its time, and it has since proved to be a national model for improving health care delivery. View the nomination.
  
  
• Lee-Janouch House in Medford, Jackson County, listed in January 2025. The Lee-Janouch House is significant as an excellent—and unusual—example of the National Park Service Rustic or Cascadian style in a private residential application. The house was constructed in 1934 by Isaac “Ike” Davidson, the building superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, for Medford residents Dr. Robert and Dema Lee. Davidson sourced stone for the house’s distinctive masonry façade from Crater Lake National Park and engaged National Park Service personnel, techniques, and equipment in its construction. He later pled guilty to misuse of federal funding and served as the primary witness in a related case against his supervisor; both men were terminated from the Park Service and served prison time as a result. As a result of its connection with Crater Lake National Park, the materials and design of the Lee-Janouch House echo the Rustic or Cascadian style associated with the Park Service. The building features battered stone walls constructed of located sourced masonry, redwood board-and-batten siding in the gable ends, and simple interior finishes. View the nomination.
  
  
• Hughes Flying Boat (H-4 Hercules) in McMinnville, Yamhill County, relisted in November 2024. The Hughes Flying Boat (H-4 Hercules), often referred to as the “Spruce Goose,” is nationally significant for its association with Howard R. Hughes, Jr., one of the most influential figures in American aviation history, and for the seaplane’s service as a research and testing platform for innovative mechanically engineered systems that became standard in large aircraft after the Second World War. As a one-of-a-kind prototype, the Hughes Flying Boat flew only one time, on November 2, 1947. It was then housed in Long Beach, California. From 1947 until 1953, the aircraft served as a testbed for a variety of aviation innovations, including the application of Duramold wood composite in large aircraft construction, redundant fire suppression, and flight control systems. It was initially listed in the National Register in 1980, but it was delisted in 1992 because it was disassembled and moved to McMinnville without prior NPS approval. In 2001, the aircraft was reassembled and today it is the centerpiece of the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. The Hughes Flying Boat is the largest seaplane, largest wooden aircraft, and largest propeller-driven plane ever built, and it is the only individually listed aircraft in Oregon. View the nomination

• Hannah and Eliza Gorman House in Benton County, additional documentation accepted in September 2024. The Hannah and Eliza Gorman House was initially listed in the National Register in 2015 under the Settlement-era Dwellings, Barns and Farm Groups of the Willamette Valley, Oregon, 1841-circa 1865 Multiple Property Document (MPD) in recognition of its association with formerly enslaved African Americans Hannah and Eliza Gorman, a mother and daughter who crossed the Oregon Trail in 1844. Once emancipated, the Gormans purchased this site and built their house during a period in which Oregon’s exclusion laws prohibited African Americans from owning property. In 2024, the National Park Service accepted an amendment to the original nomination recognizing this property’s potential to yield significant archaeological information about the lives of Oregon’s early Black pioneer residents—women in particular—during the settlement period and the era of exclusion laws. View the nomination and amendment.
  
  
• Black Historic Resources in Oregon, 1788-2002, Multiple Property Document (MPD), listed in September 2024. An MPD is a National Register cover document that provides a common context and targeted registration requirements for a group of related significant properties. This document facilitates the future nomination of those properties by providing a general historic context (which can jumpstart individual nominations’ context statements) and by defining the standards and requirements that those properties must meet to be eligible for listing in the National Register. This MPD presents an overview of the history of African Americans in Oregon through six different thematic contexts and establishes a set of registration requirements to guide the nomination of Oregon’s significant African American historic resources to the National Register. One property, the Hannah and Eliza Gorman House, has been listed in the National Register under the auspices of this MPD as of late 2024. View the MPD.
  

• J.L. Elam Bank in Milton-Freewater, Umatilla County, listed in August 2024. The J.L. Elam Bank was constructed in 1906 to house the Freewater Branch of the Walla Walla-based Elam Bank; the building received a major addition in 1908 under its second owner, C.T. Godwin, and it was remodeled in 1920 by a later owner, the Bank of Freewater. Today, the one-story building has painted, smooth concrete block walls and retains many character-defining features of the Classical Revival style, including a flat roof with decorative balustrade on the parapet, flat arch lintels above windows and doors, symmetrical entrance with columns, smooth exterior walls, and an entablature. It is one of the most notable examples of the Classical Revival commercial style in Milton-Freewater, and it reflects the evolution of the Classical Revival style in rural communities. The J.L. Elam Bank is of local significance under National Register Criterion C in the area of Architecture. View the full nomination.
  
  
• Hotel Alma in Portland, Multnomah County listed in May 2024. Hotel Alma was first listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 under the Multiple Property Document "Historic Resources in Downtown Portland, Oregon, 1906-1914". At that time, the Alma was determined to be significant under National Register Criterion A in the areas of Community Planning and Development, and Commerce. The amended nomination adds additional local significance for the property under National Register Criterion A for LGBTQ+ history as the most enduring and most representative building within the district of downtown Portland known sometimes as the gay triangle. Between 1969 and 1985 the building, then known as the Majestic Hotel, was home to a variety of uses by and for the LGBTQ+ community. In addition to continuing to serve as a hotel, the building was also home to a men’s bathhouse, bars and nightclubs, and providers of gay men’s health services. View the full nomination.
  
  
• Normandale Field in Portland, Multnomah County listed in May 2024 - Normandale Field, renamed Erv Lind Field in 1965, is a softball diamond located at the southeast corner of Normandale Park in northeast Portland. The softball field was first constructed in 1948 and served as home field for the national champion women’s softball team, the Erv Lind Florists, from 1948 to 1964. The field is of statewide significance under National Register Criterion A for its association with women’s history as well as entertainment and recreation. Normandale Field has been host to world championship softball tournaments, but it has also served as a municipal field, giving local women and girls the opportunity to play softball on the same field as a national champion. In addition, Normandale Field is locally significant under National Register Criterion A as one of the few known early, important, and long-lasting gathering spaces associated with Portland’s LGBTQ+ community. To people who identify as LGBTQ+ and that lived in Portland between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, women’s softball games at Normandale Field served as a place to socialize with other queer women from the area. View the full nomination.