Gordon House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Gordon House is a two-story Usonian-style house at the Oregon Garden in Silverton, Oregon, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, with Burton Goodrich as the supervising architect, the house was completed in 1963 for the farmer Conrad Gordon and his wife Evelyn.”
Wikipedia article Gordon House (Silverton, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 879 W. Main St., Siverton, 97381
When was it listed? September 2004
Category. building
Census division. Silverton
Architectural style. modern architecture
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 04001066 - 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.

Fires near this property

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Gordon House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	26
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Other causes	4
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	DAVIS CREEK
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santiam Unit	213 GRASS
6 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR BARREL
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR POINT RD. #1.
4 September 2014	Other causes	1.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LAURIE LANE
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR POINT #2
3 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	ENDRESON
26 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DAVIS CREEK GRASS

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Gordon House: 7 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Clay Occurrence #1	Clay	Occurrence
Fall Creek Ranch Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Victor Point Locality No. 19	Clay	Occurrence
Abiqua Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Abiqua Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pembroke/Silverton Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pembroke/Silverton Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Davis Creek	Stone	Past Producer
Davis Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hickman Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Louise Adams House	0.6 miles	2015
Silverton Commercial Historic District	0.8 miles	1987
Magnus and Emma Ek House	0.8 miles	2013
DeGuire-Ludowitzki House	0.8 miles	2015
June D. Drake House	0.8 miles	2011
Calvary Lutheran Church & Parsonage	0.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001066 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion County	All 120 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.