- Hoover-Minthorn House
The Hoover-Minthorn House is a museum in Newberg,
Oregon ,United States , created from the house ofHerbert Hoover , thirty-first President of theUnited States . Hoover lived there from1885 to1891 , with his uncle and aunt John and Laura Minthorn. The Minthorns were administrators of theQuaker middle school Friends Pacific Academy, nowGeorge Fox University , where Hoover and his brother Tad attended.The house, an Italianate design built in 1881, was restored and opened to the public in 1955. It is located on 115 South River Street, Newberg, Oregon.
The house was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places (as the Dr. Henry J. Minthorn House aka Herbert Hoover House) in 2003. [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OR/Yamhill/state2.html]External links
* [http://www.nscda.org/museums/oregon.htm Hoover-Minthorn House]
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