Historic Sites

For The Children At Luscher Farm

There’s an area at Historic Luscher Farm for the children to garden and tend to their crop. This is a mural inside a shed that sits close to the children’s area at the farm.

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The Gardens At Luscher Farm

The gardens at Luscher Farm are planted by Lake Oswego residents who pay and maintain their garden plots. There’s so much to see and do at historic Luscher Farm for young and old alike.

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1905 Tug Masters House

This 1905 Tug Master House is a Craftsman-style home built by Crown Willamette Paper Company (now known as James River Corporation) to house the log hoist and tug boat manager.

Rube Confer, manager, and his brothers Harry, John, Ed and Sy all lived in the house along with his parents and a sister. Rube and Sy both worked with the log hoist until the late 1920′s when the operation shut down. Later Rube Confer ran a “donkey”, remembers Roy Headrick, a friend and workmate. “This ‘donkey’ is a big steam thing that he built a fire in to pull the boats up over the rapids. There were these terrific rapids right below Oregon City. Rube gave me two blasts on his whistle on the donkey when the boat was ready to slide in so I could run over the hill to the river and watch it go in. This way they got the boats into the Willamette.”

Barely visible, the house is tucked between Glenmorrie and the Willamette River, and sits on the eastern edge in South Town, one of the earliest neighborhoods in Oswego. Platted in 1883 by Matthew and Catherine Patton, the area was popular with many iron worker families, as well as those serving other professions. The Tug Master’s House is a very good example of Craftsman-style architecture.

When walking along the Old River pathway from George Rogers Park heading towards West Linn, you see this lovely home.

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1890 Odd Fellows Hall

On the 26th of November, in 1890, this hall was dedicated with a meeting, dinner and ball. Men would cross the Willamette River by rowboat meet at Oswego Landing and head to the Odd Fellows Hall. Originally the main floor housed the town dentist and the doctor. Later the offices and living quarters were removed and the hall was restricted to meetings and social gatherings.

The Hall was a meeting place for many civic groups. In the early 1950s the Lake Oswego Community Theater was an occupant and the production was “Beloved Rake”.

It is of the Italianate Style and was placed on the National Historic Registry in 1978. In 1980 it was designated as a Lake Oswego Historic Resource. In 1975, the owners remodeled the interior into apartments which it still has today. The address is 295 Durham in Old Town, Lake Oswego.

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Andrews Boarding House

The Andrews Boarding House is significant for its association with local industry and as a rare highly visible example of the Italianate style.

Anna used this house as a boarding house primarily for employees of the Oregon Iron and Steel Company. Local legend indicates that Edgar Davison, first pharmacist in Oswego and the earliest professional photographer, was also among the early boarders.

Walter Todd, Superintendent of the Oregon Iron Works and a member of the famed Old Town band in the 1890s, was also one of the early boarders.

Today, according to its private owner, the house has been remodeled over the years and isn’t on any Historic registry mainly because the first floor level was never a part of the original house.

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Luscher Historic Barn

I love barns.  This one is the 1866 Luscher Historic barn at the Luscher Farm in Lake Oswego.

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The start of Iron mining In Lake Oswego

Plaque on the Historic Iron Furnace in George Rogers Park.

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1888 Furnace Crucible

This 1888 Furnace Crucible is all that remains of the second iron furnace built after the Historic Furnace in George Rogers Park became outdated. The crucible or hearth is the bottom of the smelting chamber.

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