Liberty Theater

Built in 1910 (Chicago School). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1910, Chicago School.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1008 and 1010 Adams Ave., Lagrande, 97850
When was it listed? August 1999
Category. building
Census division. La Grande
When was it built? 1910
Architectural style. Chicago School
National Register reference number. 99000948 - 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Theater between 1992 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	19
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
7 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROBS HILL
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	LaGrande District	PEACH CREEK I
2 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	LaGrande District	PREDATOR
2 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	LaGrande District	GLASS HILL
10 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MILL CREEK
1 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	LaGrande District	HUNTER
5 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	LaGrande District	TRASH
31 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	LaGrande District	DEALS CANYON

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Liberty Theater: 11 past producers, 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Platinum. 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	Recorded
La Grande	PGE	Occurrence
La Grande Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Platinum	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
La Grande Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Dry Beaver	Stone	Past Producer
Dry Beaver Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union 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
Foley Building	under 500 feet	1985
U.S. Post Office and Federal Building	under 500 feet	1979
La Grande Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	2001
Roesch Building	0.2 miles	1996
Slater Building	0.2 miles	1983
John Anthony House	0.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000948 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 21 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.