Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex, Italianate stone house in Malheur County, Oregon, United States
The Moses and Mary Hart Stone House is a stone residence in the Italianate style near Westfall, Malheur County, Oregon. Its design copies the Rinehart Stone House built in 1872 in Vale, Oregon. The property is also known as the Mose Hart Stone House and is part of a ranch complex.
The house was built as a copy of the Rinehart Stone House, erected in 1872 in Vale, Oregon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. In 2000 it was recorded as an intact, rare example of Vernacular-Italianate architecture and one of the finest examples of pioneer architecture in eastern Oregon.
The house is a copy of the Rinehart Stone House built in 1872 in Vale, Oregon, so its design ties the Hart ranch to an earlier stone building in the region. Authors Nielsen and Galbreath, writing in Oregon's Fading Past, called it "an architecture gem, soon to be forever lost unless restoration occurs in the near future."
The house stands near Westfall in Malheur County, Oregon, at coordinates 43.98139, -117.72222, on rural land reached by car. The property is a National Register listed site, so check access before setting out; the buildings are not a staffed museum.
The house is a copy of the Rinehart Stone House built in 1872 in Vale, Oregon. In 2000 it was named one of the finest examples of pioneer architecture in eastern Oregon, and authors Nielsen and Galbreath warned in Oregon's Fading Past that it would be lost without restoration.
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