Robert E. Campbell House

The Robert E. Campbell House is a historic house located in Springfield, Oregon. The architectural style reflects Rural Gothic style and it was built by early pioneer Robert E. Campbell about 1873. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1979.

Robert E. Campbell House
The house in 2011
Campbell House
Location of house in Oregon
Campbell House
Location in the United States
Nearest citySpringfield, Oregon
Coordinates44°3′14″N 123°2′31″W
Area0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built1870 (1870)–1873
Architectural styleRural Gothic Cottage Revival
NRHP reference No.79002088
Added to NRHP1 November 1979[1]

Setting

In 1979 the historic building sits on a remaining .44-acre (0.18 ha) parcel of Campbell's Donation Land Claim of 1852. This parcel constitutes a rectangular 150-foot (46 m) by 127-foot (39 m) lot bounded on the east by Aspen Avenue. The structure remains in good condition and largely intact in form and detail. Located outside the city limits in a rural suburban neighborhood the home has about 30 feet (9.1 m) clearance on all sides. The front yard has trees from close to the time the house was built and a garden featuring 26 varieties of rhododendron. There is a large garden in the rear also.[2]

Robert E. Campbell

Robert E. Campbell was born September 4, 1830 in Lafayette County, Missouri and married Ruth Campbell there in 1849. With a team oxen and two cows the Campbells and a cousin traveled to Lane County, Oregon from April to October 1851. He built a 17 feet (5.2 m) by 24 feet (7.3 m) two room log cabin there in 1852. In addition to the substantial agriculture and animal husbandry activities on his 320-acre (130 ha) 1852 Donation Land Claim, he engaged in mining in Jackson County in 1854 and shipping. With his cousin he constructed a flatboat and transported 35 short tons (32 t) of flour to Portland in 1859 for which they received US$2.75 (equivalent to $78.25 in 2019) a barrel. He built the home now known as the Robert E. Campbell House between 1870 and 1873 and removed there in 1876.[3]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System – Robert E. Campbell House (#79002088)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
  2. McDougall, Shirley (1 Nov 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Robert E. Campbell House". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved 2 Feb 2020. With 5 photos from 1978.
  3. Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon: Containing Original Sketches of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present. Part 2. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company. 1903. p. 1454. Retrieved 2 Feb 2020 – via Google Books.
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