Photograph of Berry Botanic Garden — Photograph by Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rae Selling Berry Garden and House

Built in 1939. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Berry Botanic Garden was a botanical garden in southwest Portland, Oregon, in the United States. In addition to large collections of alpine plants, rhododendrons, primulas, and lilies, it was known for its plant-conservation program and its large seed bank that protects rare or endangered plants of the Pacific Northwest.”
Wikipedia article Berry Botanic Garden, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 650 National Register listings published here for Multnomah County · listed in 2002 · category: Site · built in 1939.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11505 SW Summerville Ave., Portland, 97219
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. site
Census division. Portland West
When was it built? 1939
National Register reference number. 02001637 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Rae Selling Berry Garden and House: 19 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Oswego Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1867, 1894
Oswego Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Grimms Fuel Co	Stone	Past Producer
Grimms Fuel Co. Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lake Oswego Cement Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Lake Oswego Pit and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Waluga Park	Stone	Past Producer
Waluga Park	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Blacktop Paving Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Blacktop Paving Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Storms near this property

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portland, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 6 heavy rain, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2015	Heavy Rain	West Portland	$621,000	Heavy rain resulted in urban flooding across the Portland metro area. All Amtrack and freight trains were shut down between Portland and Vancouver due to flooding. A mobile home park in Gresham flooded. There were a couple of land slides on Highway 30 where debris covered the highway. One of these slides was near German Town Road. The other slide was near the St John's Bridge, hit a car (with no injuries) as it happened, and covered all lanes of Highway 30.
October 2016	Heavy Rain	Portland	$30,000	Heavy rain caused culverts and low-lying urban areas to flood, including 4th and Morrison. Also flooding was reported at the Portland State University Bookstore.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$11,000	Winds from a thunderstorm resulted in a large Oak Tree falling on two parked cars in downtown Portland.
March 2015	Heavy Rain	Portland	$6,000	A mudslide crossed Northwest Marlborough Street into a residential garage after 3 to 6 inches of rain fell across Northwest Oregon.
September 2007	Hail	Portland	$5,000	Estimated half-inch hail fell near 162nd and Main.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$5,000	Reports received of strong wind resulting trees blown down in downtown Portland.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$1,200	The top of a 70-foot tree, estimated between 20 and 20 inches in diameter, was snapped off in downtown Portland at the intersection of SW Salmon Street and Park Avenue. A passer-by was nearly hit as it fell to the ground. Time of the event is estimated based nearby reports from the storm.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Portland	-	Standing water reported near NE 28th Ave between Glisan and Burnside. Trimet MAX lines were temporarily closed due to standing water between Lloyd Center and Hollywood. Rain guage at the Portland Airport reported 0.82 of an inch of rain.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	A thunderstorm moving through Multnomah County produced lightning that hit a tree which fell on power lines causing a power outage to about 1600 customers.
November 2009	Heavy Rain	Portland	-	An observer reported receiving 0.98 inches in two and a half hours.
November 2009	Flood	Portland	-	Major street flooding was reported at the intersection of 39th Avenue and Belmont Street, east of downtown Portland.
January 2007	Heavy Rain	Portland	-	A total accumulation of 1.61 inches was reported at the WFO Portland.
August 1999	Hail	Portland	-	A reporter from the Hillsboro Argus newspaper reported 3/4 inch hail near 33rd Ave and Columbia Boulevard in Portland. This is unusually large hail for the Portland area away from mountains or foothills.
May 2003	Funnel Cloud	Portland	-	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	no account filed
August 1999	Lightning	Portland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Multnomah County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Donald and Ruth McGraw House	0.2 miles	2001
H. L. and Gretchen Hoyt Corbett House	0.3 miles	1991
Pierre Rossiter and Charlotte Hines House	0.3 miles	2002
Percy A. Smith House	0.4 miles	1991
C. Hunt and Gertrude McClintock Lewis House	0.4 miles	2015
John V. G. Posey House	0.5 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001637 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Multnomah County	All 650 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.