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Photograph of Harry F. Wentz Studio
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Harry F. Wentz Studio

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Wentz Studio, also known as the Harry F. Wentz Studio-Bungalow and Studio Neah-Kah-Nie, is a historic house located in the Neahkahnie community near Manzanita, Oregon, United States.”

Wikipedia article Harry F. Wentz Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Tillamook County · listed in 1976 · 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. Wentz, Harry F., Studio - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N of Manzanita off U.S. 101, Manzanita, 97131
  • When was it listed? April 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Nehalem
  • Architectural style. Northwest Regional style
  • Architect. A. E. Doyle
  • National Register reference number. 76001589 - 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Harry F. Wentz Studio between 1992 and 2019, burning about 320 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony15
Debris and open burning12
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictKNOB FIRE
23 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictMANZANITA LOG PILE
23 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictBAYSIDE FIRE
18 September 2004Naturalunder an acreTillamook DistrictSITKA LIGHTNING
12 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTillamook DistrictSLAUGHTERHOUSE
7 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictCOOL
5 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictCHEVOIT CREEK
5 August 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictGOOEY DUCK

Every fire recorded in Tillamook 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 Harry F. Wentz Studio: 11 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Falcon Cove SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mohler Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Neahkahnie Mtn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nehalem QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Old Nehalem QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 442Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pit 443Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Falcon Cove SiteStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Tillamook County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manzanita, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2016Tornado (EF2)Manzanita$1,000,000NWS Storm Survey Team confirmed a EF-2 Tornado went through Manzanita, with estimated peak winds of 125-130 mph. Tornado started as a waterspout over the Pacific Ocean and came onshore near Treasure Cove Lane and continued northeast through Manzanita.

Every storm recorded in Tillamook 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

3 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
A. E. Doyle Cottage0.3 miles1991
Mary Frances Isom Cottage0.3 miles1991
Pine Grove Community House1.1 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001589 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tillamook CountyAll 9 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.
  • 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.