John Tigard House, Historic house museum in Tigard, United States.
The John Tigard House is a wooden residence built in 1880 with one-and-a-half stories and Queen Anne architectural details combined with Carpenter Gothic elements. The structure features an attic space and represents early domestic architecture in the region.
John Tigard, eldest son of Tigard founder Wilson Tigard, built the house in 1880 on land at what is now Gaarde Street and Oregon Route 99W. By the 1970s it had deteriorated; residents formed the Tigard Historical Association to save it, moving it in 1978 to Canterbury Lane at 103rd and restoring it. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 1979.
The house is now a museum run by the Tigard Historical Society, and its attic half-story stores the society's artifacts. Each December the home is decorated for Christmas, and in September 2007 it hosted an apple harvest festival. The yard holds an apple orchard.
The free museum holds an open house once a month, and the house is decorated for Christmas each December. The half-story attic stores the historical society's artifacts rather than displays. The yard includes an apple orchard.
The house was moved in 1978, not 1979, from its original site along Oregon Route 99W to Canterbury Lane at 103rd, east of the original location. The Tigard Historical Association, formed by residents in the 1970s to prevent demolition, carried out the move and then restored the home. It was added to the National Register on July 20, 1979.
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