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Historic Preservation Plan

Peavy House, 112 NW 30th Street (Moved)

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Built in 1910 for George Peavy, founder of the first department of
forestry at Oregon Agricultural College, the home later became
student apartments and its condition deteriorated. Inspired by a 2012
newspaper story about the historic significance of Peavy House and
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its impending loss to new townhouse development, a local building
w craftsman moved the structure to the nearby College Hill West Historic
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District. Movers worked nine hours to cart the 101-year-old bungalow
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a half-mile, where it was rehabilitated and has a renewed life as a
Peavy House single family home.

w Poultry & Incubator Buildings, 800 SW

Washington Avenue (Washington Hall)
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W 1 (Moved multiple times)
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^■11 f V The Incubator House, was the OAC’s Poultry Department’s first building
and the 1893, two-story Poultry Building – moved several times – and
Poultry & Incubator Buildings remodeled in 1913, is the fourth oldest extant OSU structure. Originally
the Horticulture and Photography Building, the Poultry Building stood
north of Benton Hall, and in 1911, OAC moved it to make way for
engineering buildings. Now in its fifth location, the Poultry Building
k retains its architectural details and original glass windows. The
i Incubator Building – in its third location – retains original venting tubes
on the exterior. The buildings were reunited here in 2005 and privately
rehabilitated for commercial and residential use.
J.C. Avery Building

J. C. Avery Building, SW 2nd Street
(Robnett’s Hardware)

The Avery building is the City’s oldest remaining commercial building.
Since the 1800s, the store endures as a hardware and implement retail
enterprise. In 1857, the Occidental Messenger, a Corvallis newspaper,
promoted J.C. Avery & Co. in a fireproof brick building. Many of the
goods once sold here outfitted miners heading to the gold fields in
southern Oregon. In 1962, the name changed to Robnett’s Hardware,
and remains a rare example of a historic building and its historic use
enduring together for more than 150 years.

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