Photograph of Monteith House Museum — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Thomas and Walter Monteith House

Built in 1848 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Thomas and Walter Monteith House, also known as the Monteith House Museum, was the first frame house built in Albany, Oregon, United States. It was built by Walter and Thomas Monteith in 1848-1850.”
Wikipedia article Thomas and Walter Monteith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1848, Federal architecture.

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. Monteith,Thomas and Walter,House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 518 W. 2nd Ave., Albany, 97321
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Census division. Albany
When was it built? 1848
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 75001586 - 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 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Thomas and Walter Monteith House: 15 past producers, 8 producers, 2 plants. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Titanium, Metal, Gold. 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
Parker Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Porcupine Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Albany B Plant Ti	Titanium, Metal	Plant
Albany Plant Ti	Titanium, Metal	Plant	1968
Cox Pit and Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Parker	Stone	Past Producer
Albany Rock Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Albany Rock Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Albany Rock Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Albany Rock Products Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albany, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
September 2007	Hail	Albany	$5,000	Half-inch hail fell, and was reported to be 2-3 inches deep.
March 1994	Tornado (F0)	Albany	$500	At 1440 PST a thunderstorm apparently spawned a small tornado near a shopping area in Albany. Several eyewitnesses reported seeing debris rotating up to about 80 feet above the ground as the mini-twister moved across an empty parking lot. As the cloud passed over a large puddle witnesses reported seeing the water sucked up into the funnel along with the rest of the swirling debris. The storm moved across the street to a thrift store where it blew a door open, scattered merchandise about, and blew a storefront window out onto the sidewalk. The entire episode lasted about 10 seconds. Five minutes later small hail fell.
April 2016	Funnel Cloud	Albany	-	A trained spotter observed a funnel cloud along Interstate 5 around 10 miles south of Albany, Oregon.
May 2016	Funnel Cloud	Albany	-	A trained spotter reported seeing a funnel cloud near Albany, Oregon.
January 2006	Flood	Albany	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
United Presbyterian Church and Rectory	0.1 miles	1979
Albany Downtown Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	1982
Flinn Block	0.2 miles	1979
Albany Custom Mill	0.2 miles	1980
Monteith Historic District	0.3 miles	1980
Methodist Episcopal Church South	0.4 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001586 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn County	All 73 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.