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- Alternative Title
- David N. Birdseye House (Rogue River, Oregon)
- Creator Display
- Sam Stickel (builder/contractor)
- David Nelson Birdseye (builder/contractor)
- Creator
- Photographer
- Date
- 1855/1856
- Description
- David Nelson Birdseye and his wife Clarissa settled in the Rogue River Valley near Gold Hill in 1853. As with most of the early farms and ranches, crops and livestock were diversified. By the 20th century, the ranch focused on raising a small beef herd, hay, pasture, and occasionally grain. In the 1980s, with the price of beef down, Ted Birdseye switched to 300 head of sheep. But with coyote, big cat, and domestic dog problems, he shifted back to cattle. Today Besides cattle, the ranch raises quarter horses and maintains a hay crop and pasture land. The original log house built in 1856 burned in a fire in 1990. Although declared a total loss, Ted Birdseye had the landmark structure rebuilt according to its original design, including using 1850s construction techniques. It was a strong statement of the pride demonstrated by these descendants of pioneer families.
- National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 1991)
- View
- exterior: façade
- Temporal
- 1850-1859
- Subject
- Work Type
- Location
- Street Address
- U.S. 99, south of Rogue River
- GPS Latitude
- 42.517778
- GPS Longitude
- 123.159167
- Rights Holder
- University of Oregon
- Identifier
- pna_08300
- Item Locator
- mdr00382
- Source
- Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
- Provenance
- Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
- Citation
- National Register of Historic Places, http://www.nps.gov/nr/
- Institution
- Conversion
- This image is derived from a master TIFF (3000 x 5000 pixel, 16 bit) created by scanning a 35m slide which remains as the archival artifact. Digital editing may have included cropping, color correction, and removal of dust, scratch, or other artifacts reproduced in the scanning process.
- Submission Date
- 04/21/2015
- Modified
- 08/12/2022
- Collections
- Building Oregon (open)
APA
Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (01 Sep 2024). Birdseye, David N., House (Rogue, River, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67h067v
MLA
Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Birdseye, David N., House (Rogue, River, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 01 Sep 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67h067v
Chicago
Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Birdseye, David N., House (Rogue, River, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-09-01. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67h067v
Wiki
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