Sam Brown House

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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).[1][2] 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.[3]

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 Script error: No such module "convert". and built their house near what is now the city of Gervais.[4]

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.[5]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

See also

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Sam Brown House in the 1880s

References

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  2. Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 36.
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  4. Gibbon, Boyd. National Geographic. "Life and Death on the Oregon Trail: The Itch to Move West". August 1986. Vol. 170, No. 2: 177.
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