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Photograph of Josef Jacobberger House
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Josef Jacobberger House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Josef Jacobberger House at 1502 SW Upper Hall Street in Portland, Oregon was designed and built during 1906-07. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”

Wikipedia article Josef Jacobberger House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 650 National Register listings published here for Multnomah County · listed in 1990 · 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. Jacobberger, Josef, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1502 SW. Upper Hall St., Portland, 97201
  • When was it listed? March 1990
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Portland West
  • Architect. Joseph Jacobberger
  • National Register reference number. 90000369 - 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

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Josef Jacobberger House in 2001, burning about 7,500 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
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
13 July 2001Natural7,500 acresPrineville DistrictSTARVATION

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Josef Jacobberger House: 23 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Mercury. 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
Limestone QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Portland TunnelMercuryOccurrence
Portland TunnelMercuryProspect
Sylvan Brick CoClayPast Producer
Sylvan Brick CompanyClayPast Producer
City of PortlandStonePast Producer
City of PortlandStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
City of PortlandStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City of Portland PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Storms near this property

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portland, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 6 heavy rain, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2015Heavy RainWest Portland$621,000Heavy rain resulted in urban flooding across the Portland metro area. All Amtrack and freight trains were shut down between Portland and Vancouver due to flooding. A mobile home park in Gresham flooded. There were a couple of land slides on Highway 30 where debris covered the highway. One of these slides was near German Town Road. The other slide was near the St John's Bridge, hit a car (with no injuries) as it happened, and covered all lanes of Highway 30.
October 2016Heavy RainPortland$30,000Heavy rain caused culverts and low-lying urban areas to flood, including 4th and Morrison. Also flooding was reported at the Portland State University Bookstore.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindPortland$11,000Winds from a thunderstorm resulted in a large Oak Tree falling on two parked cars in downtown Portland.
March 2015Heavy RainPortland$6,000A mudslide crossed Northwest Marlborough Street into a residential garage after 3 to 6 inches of rain fell across Northwest Oregon.
September 2007HailPortland$5,000Estimated half-inch hail fell near 162nd and Main.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPortland$5,000Reports received of strong wind resulting trees blown down in downtown Portland.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPortland$1,200The top of a 70-foot tree, estimated between 20 and 20 inches in diameter, was snapped off in downtown Portland at the intersection of SW Salmon Street and Park Avenue. A passer-by was nearly hit as it fell to the ground. Time of the event is estimated based nearby reports from the storm.
September 2018Heavy RainPortland-Standing water reported near NE 28th Ave between Glisan and Burnside. Trimet MAX lines were temporarily closed due to standing water between Lloyd Center and Hollywood. Rain guage at the Portland Airport reported 0.82 of an inch of rain.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPortland-A thunderstorm moving through Multnomah County produced lightning that hit a tree which fell on power lines causing a power outage to about 1600 customers.
November 2009Heavy RainPortland-An observer reported receiving 0.98 inches in two and a half hours.
November 2009FloodPortland-Major street flooding was reported at the intersection of 39th Avenue and Belmont Street, east of downtown Portland.
January 2007Heavy RainPortland-A total accumulation of 1.61 inches was reported at the WFO Portland.
August 1999HailPortland-A reporter from the Hillsboro Argus newspaper reported 3/4 inch hail near 33rd Ave and Columbia Boulevard in Portland. This is unusually large hail for the Portland area away from mountains or foothills.
May 2003Funnel CloudPortland-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindPortland-no account filed
August 1999LightningPortland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Multnomah 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
Catherine White Houseunder 500 feet1983
Joseph Gaston Houseunder 500 feet1989
Morris Marks Houseunder 500 feet1975
A. G. Long Houseunder 500 feet1993
Maurice Seitz House0.1 miles1990
William Bittle Wells House0.1 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000369 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Multnomah CountyAll 650 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.