Black and white image of a two story house with a large front dormer in a steeply pitched roof. A covered porch surrounds two sides of the house. Lace curtains hang in the windows and a large dog lays on the porch. Three people stand or sit in the front yard behind a wire fence. A woman stands on one side of the front walkway, she wears a dress fitted at the waist and a deep v-neck revealing a high-necked white blouse underneath. Her hair is gathered into a loose bun on top of her head. On the other side of the sidewalk directly in front of the house an older woman sits in a carved rocking chair. She wears a dark skirt and a light colored Bishop style blouse. Her hair is pulled into a small bun on top of her head. The man standing at the right of the image wears a suit coat over a light-colored shirt and tie, high-waisted pants, and a 'bowler' style hat. A grey dappled horse stands next to him.
Black and white image of a house on the corner with a street light hanging across the intersection. A large sign on the power pole indicates that the museum is down the street, address 641 E. Main. The house is two story, cross-gabled, with a stucco exterior.
Sepia-toned image of a man and an older woman standing in front of a two-story salt-box style home. The woman, Lucy Saxton holds her infant daughter, Grace, up, while her son, George Saxton, stands with a matched team of horses hitched to a plow. George wears a striped shirt, while Lucy wears a skirt and apron. The Saxton family arrived in Oregon in the late 1800s and settled near Reedville on a farm.
Black and white image of a small house with a covered front porch and two side additions. Snow covers the roof and the ground, and is piled up on the fence rails. Several of the trees behind the house appear to have been burned off.
One of the Bernards family's homes in Verboort, Oregon. The Bernards were a large Dutch-American Catholic family who settled in the small village of Verboort, a few miles north of Forest Grove. The community had many other Dutch-American families. Three Bernards brothers -- Hubert, Theodore and John Bernards -- came to Verboort in 1875, where they were later joined by more family members. It is unclear which of the Bernards homes this photograph depicts, but it was probably taken between 1900-1920.
Black and white image of several men putting what appear to be the finishing touches on a large, two-story gabled house. One man stands on a porch with a child at his knee, two others are on the roof and a third standing on scaffolding at the roofline. The railing on the porch, staircase, and second floor is an alternating square pattern, and there is minimal scrollwork at the top of the porch supports. The house sits in a large, vacant field with a thick grove of pine trees in the background.
Black and white image of a Queen Anne style, two- story, cross-gabled house. A covered porch runs in front of one section, providing a balcony for the second story above. A bay window juts from the center of the other facade, and a decorative patterns adorns the house below the scrollwork on the eaves. The house sits up on a foundation, on a hill, with what appears to be woods covering the hills behind it.
Black and white image of a snow-covered, cross-gabled house. A road runs in front of the house, and a power pole is just visible in the left of the image. The house sits in a fenced yard behind several trees and bushes.
Black and white photograph of a cross-gabled, two-story wooden house that appears to have been abandoned. The exterior is weathered, and porch supports in the back are knocked askew. Vegetation in the yard is overgrown. Cantilevered sections jut from the roof of one gable, forming a covered porch below. A wide, second-story balcony that appears to have covered a carriage porch at one time.
Black and white photo of a two-story house behind leafy trees. House appears to be Colonial style. A two-door car is parked in the front, and a riding lawnmower is just visible in front of that.
Black and white photograph of a hip-roofed home built in an L-shape. The eaves feature braces and covered porches reminiscent of the Queen Anne revival style architecture cover both the front entrance and the side leg of the house. This bushes surround the house, and three chimneys are visible.
Sepia-toned image mounted on heavy mat of a horse and wagon and several people in front of a cross-gabled, two-story house. A man and a woman stand in front of the house; she wears a light-colored, long dress with slightly puffed sleeves. The man wears a suit and hat. The man in the wagon wears overalls, and the wagon appears to be one meant to carry either freight or passengers, with low sides and a flat cover over all. The house has a covered porch along one section, with stick-style detailing. The front of the house has a bay window next to a covered porch, both of which are incorporated into a balcony for the second floor. Two chimneys are visible, and a boardwalk runs in front of the picket fence that surrounds the house.
Sepia-toned image of five people standing in front of a cross-gabled house in a yard with many flowers and vegetation. Three women stand in a row in the front of the house, with another sitting in a rocking chair. The woman on one end holds either a cat or a puppy in her arm, and on the other end the woman holds a fan at her side. Three of the women's dresses have fitted bodices; the fourth has a loose dress gathered at the waist. A young boy sits on a horse at the right of the image, holding a rifle. He wears short pants and a hat. The house has curtains, and a number of plants are visible in the windows.
Black and white image of two men in suits standing in front of a ruined home. The house is gabled, and the front door gapes open. Many of the panes in the window next to it are broken out. The roof is mossy and many shingles are loose, and a good portion of the house is hidden behind a pile of debris.
Sepia-toned image of a large, shingle-style home in Orenco. Two tall pine trees bracket the home, and a muddy road leads up through the yard to a covered carriage driveway.
