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Historic Preservation Plan

I. Corvallis Historic

Preservation Overview

This chapter provides a brief summary of the history of Corvallis in
the interest of placing its historic resources into a general context of
the city’s development. It presents a description of historic property
types in order to establish an understanding of the diversity of historic
resources that exist and identifies some of the key historic landmarks
and districts that exist today. !Vi
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History of Corvallis Van Buren Bridge

The history of Corvallis can be considered in a range of historical IN THIS CHAPTER:
themes. These are used to group information that relates to existing A. History of Corvallis 15
historic structures based on the subjects to which they are related, B. Types of Historic 26
specific time periods and geographic area associations. By doing so, Properties
the relative importance of specific historic structures can be better
understood by determining how they relate to these themes, with an HISTORIC CONTEXT
understanding that an individual historic structure may relate to more
than one theme. STATEMENT
As defined by the National Park
Key themes that relate to the development of Corvallis are summarized Service, the historic context
in the following pages. organizes information based
on a cultural theme and its
geographical and chronological
limits. Contexts describe the
significant broad patterns of
development in an area that
may be represented by historic
properties. The development
of historic contexts is the
foundation for decisions about
identification, evaluation,
registration and treatment of
historic properties.

The historic context statement in
this chapter was written by Mary
Kathryn Gallagher and published
in August 1993. To read the
statement, visit:
http://www.corvallisoregon.gov/
history

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