Charles Henry Burggraf (1866–1942) was an American architect primarily working in

Salem, Oregon Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County, Oregon, Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river ...

, and

Albany, Oregon Albany is the county seat of Linn County, Oregon, and is the eleventh largest city in that state. Albany is located in the Willamette Valley at the confluence of the Calapooia River and the Willamette River in both Linn and Benton counties, just ...

, who also worked in

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, and in

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. A number of his works are listed on the U.S.

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

(NRHP). Burggraf was a prolific architect of public buildings such as courthouses, hospitals, university buildings, schools and churches. Among his works are courthouses for nine of Oregon's 36 counties (in Coos,

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, Gilliam,

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, Lincoln,

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, and Tillamook counties, of which only the Tillamook, Wheeler, and Sherman buildings survived in 1998). Of hospital buildings, during 1893 to 1909 he designed three buildings at the

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, three at the Oregon State Hospital, and three at the Hospital Cottage Home. At the

Oregon Agricultural College Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering col ...

(later Oregon State University), he designed

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(a women's dormitory) and the

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. At the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station in

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, he designed two buildings. He designed numerous public schools in Oregon, including in Albany, Ashland, Bandon,

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, Coquille, Corvallis, Cottage Grove,

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, Grants Pass, Jacksonville,

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, Junction City, Klamath Falls, Lakeview, Medford, North Bend, North Yamhill, Roseburg, Salem,

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, and Union. He also designed churches, commercial buildings, at least one hotel and one bank and one library, and other buildings. and

Works

Works include: *

, Oregon State University (OSU) campus, Corvallis, Oregon *

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, 731 SW Broadalbin St, Albany, NRHP-listed * Flinn Block, 222 SW 1st Ave, Albany, NRHP-listed * Burggraf–Burt–Webster House, 901 13th St SE, Salem, NRHP-listed * Sherman County Courthouse, 500 Court St, Moro, Oregon, NRHP-listed * Garfield County Courthouse, 8th and Main streets, Pomeroy, Washington, NRHP-listed

References

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