The Hoover–Minthorn House is a museum in Newberg,

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, created from the residence of

Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Gr ...

, thirty-first President of the

. Hoover lived there from 1885 to 1891, with his uncle and aunt John and Laura Minthorn. The Minthorns were administrators of the Quaker school Friends Pacific Academy, now

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, which Hoover and his brother Tad attended. The house, an

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design built in 1881 by Jesse Edwards, a Quaker merchant, is the first residence Edwards built and the oldest house still standing in what is now Newberg, Oregon. Representing vernacular design in the

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, it was restored and opened to the public in 1955. It is located on 115 South River Street. Owned and operated as a house museum by the Oregon chapter of

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, it has been furnished with late 19th-century period furnishings, including the bedroom furniture used by Hoover as a boy. The house was placed on the

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(as the Dr. Henry J. Minthorn House aka Herbert Hoover House) in 2003."Dr. Henry J. Minthorn House"
NRHP

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