Built 1882 Opened 1882 Added to NRHP 14 April 1978 | NRHP Reference # 78002328 Area 1,518 m² | |
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Location First Street between Adams and Washington streets, Fossil, Oregon | ||
The Thomas Benton Hoover House is a historic house located in Fossil, Oregon, United States. The house is constructed in two stories with clapboarded outer walls. It was built in 1882 by Thomas Benton Hoover, an early Euro-American settler and prominent Fossil citizen. Hoover was Fossil's first merchant (along with a partner), mayor, justice of the peace, and postmaster, as well as an early county commissioner and director of schools. He named Fossil for a paleontological find on his property in 1876.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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