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Hoover-Minthorn House
Hoover-Minthorn House & Museum
The Hoover-Minthorn House was built in 1881 by Jesse Edwards and is the first residence built and still standing in what is now Newberg, Oregon. For the years 1885-1889, the house was the home of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States.
The house is owned and operated by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Oregon. Architecturally, the house reflects Jesse Edwards, the Quaker entrepreneur. It is also very much an 1882 Willamette Valley vernacular house--an expression of rural taste, a less sophisticated country cousin of the grander houses being built in Portland. In overall design, the house is Italianate. Its eclecticism comes from other features--an example of fashion in the midst of change.
The furniture in President Hoover's bedroom is the actual set he used as a boy. Other furnishings in the house were gathered from homes in the countryside around Newberg and from the Friends Pacific Academy.
Visit the Museum
Excerpt from the Hoover-Minthorn Museum website:
"Explore the story of Herbert Hoover: an orphaned Quaker boy who became one of the world's greatest humanitarians, the thirty-first President of the United States of America, and a visionary who left a legacy of devotion to world peace through the ongoing study of war, revolution, and peace at the Hoover Institution."
Cultural Passes for the museum available to Newberg residents through the Newberg Public Library (a service of the City of Newberg).
