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Photograph of John Quincy Adams Young House
Photograph by Steve Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House, also known as the John Quincy Adams Young House, is a historic American saltbox house built in 1869 in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located in the unincorporated Cedar Mill area of Washington County, Oregon, near Portland, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Young, John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 12050 NW Cornell Rd., Portland, 97229
  • When was it listed? December 2008
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Beaverton-Hillsboro
  • Architectural style. saltbox
  • National Register reference number. 08001264 - 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 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House: 21 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Portland TunnelMercuryOccurrence
Portland TunnelMercuryProspect
Sylvan Brick CoClayPast Producer
Sylvan Brick CompanyClayPast Producer
City of PortlandStonePast Producer
City of PortlandStonePast Producer
Grabhorn QuarryStonePast Producer
Murray Road QuarryStonePast Producer
Murray Road QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Oak Hills Historic District1.8 miles2013
Beaverton Downtown Historic District2.8 miles1986
M. E. Blanton House3.5 miles1989
J. F. Watkins House3.7 miles1993
Thomas Michos House3.8 miles1991
Aloha Farmhouse3.9 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08001264 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 51 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.