William Barlow House (or Barlow House) is a historic building in
Clackamas County
Clackamas County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Oregon City. The county was named after the Native ...
,
Oregon
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, United States.
Barlow House was home to
William Barlow, namesake of the city of Barlow and son of
Samuel K. Barlow, who built the
Barlow Road
The Barlow Road (at inception, Mount Hood Road) is a historic road in what is now the U.S. state of Oregon. It was built in 1846 by Sam Barlow and Philip Foster, with authorization of the Provisional Legislature of Oregon, and served as the la ...
. The house is located south of
Barlow, between
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* Canby (surname)
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* Canby, California
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* Canby, Oregon
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and
Aurora
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on
99E. It was built in an
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 R ...
style in 1885,
and listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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on February 15, 1977.
[ It now operates as a privately owned museum and is open by appointment.]
References
External links
Historic Barlow House
- Touring information
taken in 1885
1885 establishments in Oregon
Historic house museums in Oregon
Houses completed in 1885
Houses in Clackamas County, Oregon
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
Italianate architecture in Oregon
Museums in Clackamas County, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Clackamas County, Oregon
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