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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, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was the first permanent building in the community of "Stone House", renamed to "Vale" in 1887.
Old Stone House | |
 The building's exterior in 2007 | |
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| Location | 283 S. Main St., Vale, Oregon |
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| Coordinates | 43°58′50.5″N 117°14′22.2″W / 43.980694°N 117.239500°W |
| Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
| Built | 1872 |
| NRHP reference No. | 72001085[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 19, 1972 |
It is a 26 by 40 feet (7.9 m × 12.2 m) building from Oregon's early settlement period, built of local sandstone in 1872. It has imitation Italianate-style elements in its shallow hipped roof, 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.[2]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Elisabeth Walton (March 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Stone House / Stone House Hotel". National Park Service. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
- Rinehart Stone House - Vale Chamber of Commerce