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McDonald Theater Building

Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“McDonald Theatre is a theater and music venue in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1925 as a movie house, the building was converted to a theater for performing arts, and is still in business.”

Wikipedia article McDonald Theatre, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1925.

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.
  • Address. 1004-1044 Willamette St., Eugene, 97401
  • When was it listed? August 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Eugene-Springfield
  • When was it built? 1925
  • National Register reference number. 82003733 - 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

162 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of McDonald Theater Building between 1997 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined111
Equipment and vehicle use12
Fireworks8
Debris and open burning6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon District150215987
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon District150215670
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictFFD140203958
7 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictBLANTON
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersEAST 40TH
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictFFD140202531
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon District150211575
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon District150211432

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of McDonald Theater Building: 20 past producers, 11 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Eugene Molding Sand DepositSilica, ClayPast Producer
Eugene Molding Sand DepositSilica, ClayPast Producer
Hawkins ButteSilicaOccurrence
Hawkins ButteSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Fisher Butte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eugene, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 1996Tornado (F0)Eugene$50,000no account filed
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Eugene$25,000A Lane Community College Official witnessed a rain wrapped tornado that significantly damaged three vehicles. One vehicle was moved around 125 feet and ended upside down on a berm in a parking lot. Estimated wind speeds of 65 to 85 mph is needed to move a car which rates the tornado as an EF0.
January 2016Thunderstorm WindEugene$15,000Strong winds from a band of thunderstorms brought around 8 large trees down. Some of these trees damaged power poles or took down power lines as they fell, and resulted in power outages. A stop sign was blown down, part of a roof blew off, as well as two chicken coup roofs. Part of a chain link fence form a construction site blew onto 5th Street and blocked the southbound lanes.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindEugene$5,000no account filed
March 2025FloodEugene-Heavy persistent rainfall resulted in localized flooding at several of Eugene parks and creeks impacting Alton Baker Park, Delta Ponds, and along the Fern Ridge Path. A trained spotter reports lots of ponding of water near Fairmount Blvd and E 19th Ave, downhill from Hendricks Park. Additionally, another trained spotter reports parts of Amazon Park Trail underwater in the area of E 23rd Ave and Willamette St. due to small stream/river flooding.
June 2005LightningEugene-Thunderstorms produced frequent lightning in the Eugene and Springfield area early in the morning. Lightning struck several power transformers in Eugene and Cottage Grove, resulting in power outages to 300 Eugene residences and 50 in Cottage Grove.
May 2006HailEugene-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Schaefers Buildingunder 500 feet1979
Ax Billy Department Storeunder 500 feet1982
Quackenbush Hardware Store0.1 miles1982
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House (Old)0.1 miles1983
McMorran and Washburne Department Store Building0.2 miles1989
Eugene Hotel0.2 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003733 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lane CountyAll 123 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.