Minthorn Hall

Built in 1887 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Minthorn Hall is an academic building on the campus of George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, United States. Built in 1887, the hall was moved ten blocks to its current location in 1892.”
Wikipedia article Minthorn Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1887, Colonial 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. North St. on the George Fox University Campus, Newberg, 97132
When was it listed? June 1997
Category. building
Census division. Newberg
When was it built? 1887
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 97000581 - 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 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Minthorn Hall in 2020, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CLEAR CREEK

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Minthorn Hall: 21 past producers, 9 producers. 9 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
Neberg/Fogarty Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Renne Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past 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
John T. Smith House	0.2 miles	1984
Charles K. Spaulding House	0.2 miles	1994
Dr. Henry J. Minthorn House (Herbert Hoover House)	0.3 miles	2003
Union Block	0.4 miles	2000
J.C. Penney Building	0.4 miles	2007
Jesse Edwards House	0.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000581 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.
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.