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Photograph of St. Elizabeth Health Services
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Elizabeth Hospital (Old)

Built in 1897 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Elizabeth Health Services is a private Roman Catholic hospital in Baker City, Oregon, United States. In 1912, a 115-bed facility was constructed at 2365 4th Street.”

Wikipedia article St. Elizabeth Health Services, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1897, Tudor Revival 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.
  • Address. 2365 Fourth St., Baker, 97814
  • When was it listed? February 1989
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Baker City
  • When was it built? 1897
  • Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 89000047 - 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of St. Elizabeth Hospital (Old) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,563 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 2014Firearms and explosives useunder an acreVale DistrictFLAGSTAFF
21 September 1992Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National Forestnot named
1 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreVale DistrictMP 311
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictDOOLEY MTN
5 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestARCHERY RANGE
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestSHOULDA BEEN BIGGER
5 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresBaker UnitELK CREEK
31 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGRIFFIN GULCH

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 81 workings within 5 miles of St. Elizabeth Hospital (Old): 42 past producers, 17 producers, 8 unknowns, 7 occurrences. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone. 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
Blue Mountain Lime MillCalciumProducer
Gray EagleAntimony, GoldProducerStibnite
Gray Eagle MineAntimony, Gold, SilverProspectCervantite, Stibiconite, Stibnite
Gray Eagle MineAntimony, Silver, GoldProducer
Heston SiteCopperProducer
Lucky StrikeAntimony, Gold, CopperProspect
Sam-O SpringGeothermalProducer
Coyote Peak QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Coyote Peak QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Flagstaff Sand PitGold, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Baker 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

5 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
Ed Rand House0.4 miles1981
Baker Municipal Natatorium0.5 miles1977
Baker Historic District0.5 miles1978
Robert F. and Elizabeth Clark House0.6 miles1989
Churchill School0.8 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000047 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baker CountyAll 14 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.