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Dennis Dougherty recently sent us this series of photographs of the Western States Plywood Mill under construction in 1951: “I worked there two summers in 1969-70 while attending…
These cottages were located on an undersized city block on the north end of Port Orford on HWY 101 across from the present day site of Gold Beach…
The Hughes House and Ranch is a well-known destination on the Southern Oregon Coast nestled in Cape Blanco State Park at the mouth of the Sixes River. Each…
The tower of the Cape Blanco Lighthouse has been closed to public tours since 2020, and over the past two years it has been under structural evaluation by…
In 1921, the Oregon State Highway Department began construction of Oregon Route 9 on the Oregon Coast. The new highway was to be known as the Roosevelt Highway,…
(As told to Alan Mitchell by Leon White ) It was a large wooden two story building located about a 15-minute walk north of where I lived. When…
(As told to Alan Mitchell by Leon White) Leon remembers that even at very young age, he understood (and respected) the kind of damage a fire could do…
(As told to Alan Mitchell by Leon White – September 2021) I recall one of the movie serials had a scene with a Forest Ranger speeding in the…
(As told to Alan Mitchell by Leon White – March 2021) The Club Building was a popular fancy saloon in its heyday in the 1930s and ‘40s. Initially,…
The Charles Long House Built by P.J. Lindberg in 1891 for Charles’ mother Mary Alice Nielsen. Mary had previously been married to Christopher Long. The Long family came…
Eugene/Leon White House, 3315-05DA, Block 31, Taxlot 6800, 504 Harbor Dr./Washington St. Built 1903/4 by P.J. Lindberg and Eugene Llewellyn White. Source: Leon White. Listed on the Oregon’s…
Two story Victorian built by P.J. Lindberg for Frank and Catherine McMullen. Their daughter, Laura, married James Hughes who was a lighthousekeeper at the Cape Blanco Lighthouse for…
Pehr Johan Lindberg was a Swedish immigrant who relocated to Port Orford in the mid-1880s, bringing with him a wealth of building experience from thirty years of practicing…
A Brief History of Extant Buildings in Old Town, The Original Port Orford Business District. “In 1852, Oregon land claims officials, checking on Port Orford, reported that the…
City of Port Orford Buildings Inventory 6th Street, starting south end of town. Ella Knapp House, 3315-04CB Taxlot 500, 610 Deady Street blt. 1936 Louis Knapp Jr. had…
A few years after the Port Orford fire of 1868, a blaze which destroyed nearly the entire town, Louis Knapp Sr. built the Centennial Building. He constructed it…
In recent years, there has been some confusion between this building and another similar structure known as Leneve Hall. Both buildings had a dance hall on the second…
The first Port Orford grade school when it was situated on Jackson Street across from the Nygren Hotel, built in abt. 1880 and use was discontinued in 1913….
In 1859, Louis Knapp and his widowed mother, Rachel, came to Port Orford, Oregon, from Baltimore, Maryland. Their well-known Knapp Hotel was originally constructed as a boarding house…