Sam Brown House (or Samuel Brown House) is a historic house near

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, United States built in 1857 by Oregon pioneer and state senator

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(1821-1886).Corning, Howard M. (1989) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 36. The house is located on the

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on the Peter Depot land claim and is believed to be the first in Oregon to be designed by an architect. The house was featured in the August 1986 issue of '' National Geographic Magazine'', which described Samuel Brown as a Missourian who dug 62 pounds of gold in California and later moved with his wife to Oregon. The couple filed a Donation Land Claim and acquired more than and built their house near what is now the city of Gervais. It served as a stage stop and housed three generations of the Browns. The son of the original Samuel Brown, Sam H. Brown, was a state senator and unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1934 and 1938. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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Sam Brown House image
from the Oregon State Library
1934 image of Sam Brown House
from the Library of Congress
Save Sam Brown House

Renewed hope for saving historic Sam Brown House near Gervais
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