Jesse Edwards House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Jesse Edwards House is a historic house in Newberg, Oregon, United States. Built by Jesse Edwards, the "Father of Newberg" and one of the founders of George Fox University, it is the second-oldest residence in the city, after the Hoover-Minthorn House.”
Wikipedia article Jesse Edwards House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1980 · 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. Edwards, Jesse, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 402 S. College St., Newberg, 97132
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Census division. Newberg
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 80003393 - 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 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Jesse Edwards House: 18 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Newberg River Rock	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Newberg River Rock Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Newburg Sand & Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Newburg Sand & Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Chehalem Mountain Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crabtree Traprock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Renne Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Yamhill County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newberg, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 2 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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	Newberg	-	A member of the public noticed a cold core funnel in Newberg Oregon in the afternoon, that showed rotation for a few minutes.
April 2003	Funnel Cloud	Newberg	-	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Newberg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yamhill 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
Paulson-Gregory House	under 500 feet	1999
Union Block	0.2 miles	2000
J.C. Penney Building	0.2 miles	2007
Dr. Henry J. Minthorn House (Herbert Hoover House)	0.2 miles	2003
Cameo Theatre	0.3 miles	2018
Charles K. Spaulding House	0.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003393 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yamhill County	All 84 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.