The Hunter–Morelock House is a historic house located at 104 Holmes St. in

Wallowa, Oregon Wallowa () is a city in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. The population was 808 at the 2010 census. History The Wallowa Valley is within the traditional lands of the Nez Perce. In the late 19th century, the Wallowa band was one of more t ...

. The house was built in 1903 for Charles A. Hunter, a Wallowa politician and businessmen; it was later purchased by J. P. Morelock, one of the founders and later mayor of Wallowa. The house's design incorporates the bungalow and Queen Anne styles; the design includes a

veranda A veranda or verandah is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure. Although the form ''vera ...

, a

hip roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

with a small dormer, and a double-hung sash central window. The dormer is trimmed in

Eastlake style The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906). The movement is generally considered part of the late Victorian period in t ...

trim, and

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is used extensively in the entrance and several interior windows. The Hunter–Morelock House was listed on the

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 ...

on February 28, 1985.

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* Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon Queen Anne architecture in Oregon Bungalow architecture in Oregon Houses completed in 1903 Houses in Wallowa County, Oregon National Register of Historic Places in Wallowa County, Oregon 1903 establishments in Oregon {{Oregon-NRHP-stub