Fanno Farmhouse, Historic house in Beaverton, US.
The Fanno Farmhouse is a one-and-a-half-storey clapboard house built in 1859 in a modified New England revival style, with neoclassical details. It stands on its original site beside Fanno Creek in Beaverton, Oregon, and was restored by the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District.
Augustus Fanno filed the first donation land claim in Washington County, a 640-acre (2.6 km²) tract on a tributary of the Tualatin River, after his first wife Martha died in childbirth at Linn City. In 1859 he designed and built this rural house in a modified New England revival style. His family pioneered onion cultivation in Oregon, and descendants farmed here until onion maggots ended the business in the 1940s. They occupied the house until 1974 and donated it to THPRD in March 1982.
The Fanno family became known throughout the region for their specialized approach to onion farming, shaping how neighbors practiced agriculture for generations. Their methods left a lasting mark on how farming was done locally.
The property is managed by Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District and provides visitors with access to a piece of regional farming heritage. Visiting allows you to examine the building methods and learn about early settler life up close.
The house stayed in Fanno hands until 1974, and in March 1982 the family gave it and the adjoining land to the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District, which restored it. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, named a Century Farm, and nominated for the Washington County Historical Society's 1985 Griffin Cabin Award.
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