Sam Brown House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Sam Brown House is a historic house near Gervais, Oregon, United States built in 1857 by Oregon pioneer and state senator Samuel Brown (1821-1886). 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.”
Wikipedia article Sam Brown House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1974 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Brown, Sam, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Gervais, Gervais, 97026
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. building
Census division. Woodburn
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 74001697 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sam Brown House: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
St Louis Borrow	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
St. Louis Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Topsoil Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gervais, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2014	Funnel Cloud	Gervais	-	A couple of people reported a cold core funnel cloud between Woodburg and Gervais, OR around 145 pm. Some damage was reported in this area around the same time, but a NWS storm survey determined the damage was more consistent with straight line wind damage than from a funnel cloud.

Every storm 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
Bank of Woodburn	2.9 miles	1996
Old Woodburn City Hall	3.1 miles	1979
Jesse H. Settlemier House	3.1 miles	1974
Windischar's General Blacksmith Shop	5.1 miles	1980
Queen of Angels Priory	5.2 miles	1982
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church	5.2 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001697 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.
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.