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, approximately 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 ...

, listed on the

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. 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 rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

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 combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

-style elements in its shallow

hipped roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downward to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others. Thus, a hipped roof has no gables or other vertical sides ...

, 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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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

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