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Portland, Oregon
The Benson Hotel, built by timber baron Simon Benson in 1913, is a downtown Portland landmark known for its Circassian walnut lobby. Oregon…
Sumpter, Oregon
Bourne was a gold-mining camp originally called Cracker City, renamed for Oregon senator Jonathan Bourne Jr., whose nearby mines produced…
Hood River, Oregon
The Columbia Gorge Hotel, built by Portland timber baron Simon Benson in 1921 on a cliff beside Wah Gwin Gwin Falls, is a Spanish-style…
Halfway, Oregon
Cornucopia grew after Lon Simmons found gold in 1884 and had at least 500 men by 1885, with the Last Chance, Queen of the West,…
Portland, Oregon
The Crystal Ballroom on West Burnside, opened in 1914 as Cotillion Hall, is known for its floating dance floor and is now a McMenamins…
Salem, Oregon
The Elsinore Theatre, which opened in 1926 with a Tudor Gothic design, is a downtown Salem landmark that still shows films and live acts.…
Astoria, Oregon
The Flavel House Museum in Astoria is the Queen Anne mansion of Captain George Flavel, a Columbia River bar pilot and one of the town's…
Warrenton, Oregon
Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia River, was built in 1863 to defend against Confederate raiders and was in service until 1947; it…
Baker City, Oregon
The Geiser Grand Hotel on Main Street in Baker City was built during the Oregon gold rush and was once considered the finest hotel between…
Golden, Oregon
Golden was an 1890s gold-rush settlement founded by religious settlers who banned alcohol and gambling; a church, general store and…
Granite, Oregon
Granite began when Albert Tabor struck gold on July 4, 1862 and named his claim Independence; the town was incorporated in 1900 with most…
Baker City, Oregon
Greenhorn boomed from about 1910 to 1915 with two hotels, a post office, fire hydrants, stores and saloons, then collapsed after the 1942…
Heppner, Oregon
Hardman was a farm trade center in southern Morrow County that declined after the 1920s when the railroad went through Heppner. Its 1900…
Portland, Oregon
The Heathman Hotel, opened in 1927 across from the Portland Art Museum, is a downtown landmark and the setting for part of Fifty Shades of…
Florence, Oregon
Heceta Head Lighthouse, completed in 1894 on a headland north of Florence, is among the most photographed lighthouses on the Oregon coast.…
Portland, Oregon
The Hollywood Theatre on Northeast Sandy Boulevard opened in 1926 and is now a nonprofit cinema and film center. Oregon ghost lists…
Astoria, Oregon
The Liberty Theater in downtown Astoria opened in 1925 as the first theater rebuilt after the 1922 Astoria fire, and is now a nonprofit…
Ashland, Oregon
Lithia Park is Ashland's creekside park of ponds, trails and old trees, laid out in the early 1900s. Travel Oregon lists it among the…
Jacksonville, Oregon
The McCully House on California Street in Jacksonville is one of the oldest houses in this Gold Rush town, built for Dr. John McCully, and…
Oregon City, Oregon
The McLoughlin House in Oregon City was the home of Dr. John McLoughlin, the Hudson's Bay Company chief factor known as the Father of…
Troutdale, Oregon
McMenamins Edgefield, east of Portland, began in 1911 as the Multnomah County Poor Farm, a home for residents who were poor, ill or…
Forest Grove, Oregon
The Grand Lodge in Forest Grove was built in 1922 as the Masonic and Eastern Star Home for older members and their families, and is now a…
Portland, Oregon
The ghost story told at the Kennedy School is of a young girl: a bartender in the Boiler Room Bar told a National Geographic writer that a…
Astoria, Oregon
The Norblad Hotel, built in 1923, is one of Astoria's longest-running hotels and now offers private rooms and a hostel. Ghost Adventures…