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The Old Stone House, also known as the Stone House Hotel, Rinehart House or Rinehart Stone House Museum, is a building and museum located in
Vale, Oregon Vale is a city in and the county seat of Malheur County, Oregon, United States, about west of the Idaho border. It is at the intersection of U.S. Routes 20 and 26, on the Malheur River at its confluence with Bully Creek. Vale was selected a ...
, 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 ...
. The building was the first permanent building in the community of "Stone House", renamed to "Vale" in 1887. It is a building from Oregon's early settlement period, built of local
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
in 1872. It has imitation
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
-style elements in its shallow
hipped 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, ...
, overhanging eaves, and round arch heads over its windows and door on the first story. It originally had a front porch with a deck served by a doorway in the center of its second floor.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Malheur County, Oregon Current listings Former listings References {{NRORextlinks, Malheur Malheur County Malheur County () is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,5 ...


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Rinehart Stone House
- Vale Chamber of Commerce Buildings and structures in Malheur County, Oregon History museums in Oregon Museums in Malheur County, Oregon National Register of Historic Places in Malheur County, Oregon Stone houses in the United States Vale, Oregon 1872 establishments in Oregon Houses completed in 1872 {{Oregon-NRHP-stub