John Phillips House
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Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".John Phillips House is a historic 1853 vernacular Greek Revival[1] house in the Spring Valley area of Polk County, Oregon, United States. It was built for pioneer John Phillips,[1] who came to Oregon via the Oregon Trail in 1845.[2] He finished his journey to Oregon on the Meek Cutoff as part of Stephen Meek's "lost wagon train".[2][3]
John Phillips, born in 1814, was a native of Wiltshire England who came to the U.S. in 1834 and settled in Florida.[3][4] After living in New Orleans—where he met and married Elizabeth Hibbard in 1839—and St. Louis, he came to Oregon and bought the Turner donation land claim in Polk County for $100.[3][4] The locale was once known as Spring Valley Ranch.[3] John Phillips hired carpenter Samuel Coad to build a house for him there.[5]
Samuel Coad served during the Cayuse War in 1855, and helped construct buildings at Fort Hoskins, including one commissioned by then-Lieutenant Philip Sheridan, which was moved near the community of Pedee.[5][6][7] Also known as the Condron House, the Philip Sheridan House has been returned to the Fort Hoskins site and is being restored.[6] Samuel Coad married the daughter of General Cornelius Gilliam, Henrietta, in 1853.[5] Coad also constructed the woolen mill at Ellendale.[5]
As of 1980, the John Phillips House was the oldest residence in Polk County and was still in the Phillips family.[3] The <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1+1⁄2-story house has horizontal wood siding.[8]
The house has a Salem mailing address, but the closest settlement is the unincorporated community of Zena about a mile to the southwest.[3] John Phillips is buried in the Zena Cemetery at Spring Valley Presbyterian Church.[3]
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External links
- John Phillips biographies and obituary from Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries
- Image of Condron House, also built by Samuel Coad, from Salem Public Library
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- Houses completed in 1853
- Greek Revival houses in Oregon
- National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Oregon
- Neoclassical architecture in Oregon
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
- Houses in Polk County, Oregon
- 1853 establishments in Oregon Territory