Palmer House (Dayton, Oregon)

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name = Palmer House
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caption = Front of Palmer House, seen from Ferry Street
location= Dayton, Oregon
lat_degrees = 45
lat_minutes = 13
lat_seconds = 5
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 123
long_minutes = 4
long_seconds = 42
long_direction = W
locmapin = Oregon
area =
built = 1857 cite web
url = http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf
title = Oregon National Register List
publisher = State of Oregon
date = July 162007
pages = 52
accessdate = 2008-03-30 ]
architect = (unknown)
architecture = Classical Revival
added = March 16, 1987
governing_body = Private
mpsub = Dayton MRA
refnum = 87000403 cite web
url = http://www.nr.nps.gov/iwisapi/explorer.dll?IWS_SCHEMA=NRIS1&IWS_LOGIN=1&IWS_REPORT=100000044
title=National Register Information System
date=2007-01-23
work=National Register of Historic Places
publisher=National Park Service
accessdate = 2008-06-19 ]

The Palmer House (also Joel Palmer House and Krake Residence cite web
url = http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OR/Yamhill/state2.html
title = Oregon - Yamhill County
work = National Register of Historic Places
publisher = National Park Service
accessdate = 2008-06-19 ] ) is the historic residence of Oregon pioneer Joel Palmer (1810–81), who co-founded Dayton, Oregon, United States.

The house, located at 600 Ferry Street in Dayton, is one of Oregon's finest historic homes. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since March 16,1987,and is on the Oregon Historic Register. [ cite web
url = http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/index.cfm?do=v.dsp_siteSummary&resultDisplay=19702
title = Site Information Joel Palmer House
work = Oregon Historic Sites Database
publisher = Oregon State Parks
accessdate = 2008-09-05 ] It was the first of 48 Dayton properties to be listed and is the town's oldest standing structure. [ cite web
url = http://www.mthoodmagazine.com/2008-05/6-oregon-trail-info.htm
title = Mount Hood’s Earliest Settlers: Sam Barlow, Joel Palmer and Others of the Oregon Trail
accessdate = 2008-06-19 ]

History

Shortly after arriving in the Oregon Country in 1845, Palmer filed a donation land claim for himself in the Corvallis area, and one for his brother-in-law in the Dayton area. Palmer returned to Indiana for his family and came to Oregon again in 1847, to find that his land claim had been jumped. His brother-in-law decided not to return to Oregon, so Palmer settled that claim instead, located about six miles south of Dayton.

Palmer was called away around December 15,1847, to be Commissary General of the Military Forces of Oregon Territory to handle the Cayuse War at the Whitman Mission, and afterward left for the California Gold Rush. During his absence, his daughter Sarah married Andrew Smith and settled on Smith's land claim at the mouth of the [Yamhill River|Yam Hill ["sic"] River] . cite web
url = http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/sms/sms05/hcr00013her03-31-2005.pdf
title = House Committee on Elections & Rules Measure 13: Commemorates 125th anniversary of Dayton
work = 73rd Oregon Legislative Assembly - 2005 Regular Session
author = Rep. Nelson
coauthors = Cletus Moore, Administrator
format = pdf
date = April 5,2005 ] When Palmer returned in February 1850, he purchased part of Smith's land and merged it with his brother-in-law's, Palmer's son's and daughter-in-law's to form a convert|465|acre|ha|adj=on tract which he platted to be Dayton.

The first building and Palmer's home was a hotel in the center of the newly-platted area. He kept it for a few years, but then built Palmer House near the town's outskirts in 1852 or 1857. [ Sources disagree, but the preponderance of references favors 1852. See cites of Klooster, Lilly Library, and Martha's Cottage.] [ cite web
url = http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/palmer.html
title = Palmer MSS.
work = Lilly Library Manuscript Collections
accessdate = 2008-03-30 ] cite web
url = http://www.newsregister.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=229606
title = Wanted: Passionate preservationist
date = December 152007
author = Karl Klooster
publisher =
accessdate = 2008-03-30 ] cite web
url = http://www.marthascottageoregon.com/history_2.htm Martha's Cottage
title = Dayton in the Early Years
accessdate = 2008-03-30 ] The house has survived several floods and at least one major fire.

The house is located near the mouth of the Yamhill River at the Willamette River, and near Palmer Creek (previously known as Smith Creek), which was of early interest for powering machinery. Palmer operated a sawmill, a hotel and several other enterprises.

Since 1996, the house has functioned as an upscale restaurant featuring creative local cuisine. [ cite web
url = http://portland.citysearch.com/profile/8441207/dayton_or/joel_palmer_house.html
title = Joel Palmer House - Dayton, Oregon
work = Citysearch
accessdate = 2008-06-20 ] [ cite web
url = http://www.wweek.com/html/dish062100.html
title = The Czar of the 'Shroom
author = Mac Montandon
work = Willamette Week
date = January 19,2005
accessdate = 2008-06-20 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.joelpalmerhouse.com Joel Palmer House restaurant website]