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One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1884.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mathieson-Worthington House
Built in 1884. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Mathieson--Worthington House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 885 McVey Ave., Lake Oswego, 97034
- When was it listed? June 1990
- Category. building
- Census division. Northwest Clackamas
- When was it built? 1884
- National Register reference number. 90000837 - 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 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Mathieson-Worthington House: 25 past producers, 12 producers, 1 occurrence. 12 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Welsh Silica Mine | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Francis Welsh Silica Mine | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Oswego Iron Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1867, 1894 | |
| Oswego Iron Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Durham Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Grimms Fuel Co. Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lake Oswego Pit and Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pynns Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Seventh Day Adventists | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Waluga Park | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Oswego, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2005: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Oswego | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Iron Workers' Cottage | 0.4 miles | 2009 |
 | George Rogers House | 0.5 miles | 1996 |
 | Oregon Iron Company Furnace | 0.5 miles | 1974 |
 | Lake Oswego Odd Fellows Hall | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Osco C. Roehr House | 0.5 miles | 2012 |
 | Dr. Walter Black House | 0.6 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90000837 in Record Group 79. |
| Clackamas County | All 93 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.