Thomas Benton Hoover House

Thomas Benton Hoover House
Photograph of a house
The Hoover House in 2011
Location First Street between Adams and Washington streets, Fossil, Oregon
Coordinates 44°59′59″N 120°12′57″W / 44.999711°N 120.215782°W / 44.999711; -120.215782Coordinates: 44°59′59″N 120°12′57″W / 44.999711°N 120.215782°W / 44.999711; -120.215782
Area 0.375 acres (1,520 m2)[1]
Built 1882
NRHP Reference # 78002328
Added to NRHP April 14, 1978

The Thomas Benton Hoover House is a historic house located in Fossil, Oregon, United States. The house is constructed in two stories with clapboarded outer walls. It was built in 1882 by Thomas Benton Hoover, an early Euro-American settler and prominent Fossil citizen. Hoover was Fossil's first merchant (along with a partner), mayor, justice of the peace, and postmaster, as well as an early county commissioner and director of schools. He named Fossil for a paleontological find on his property in 1876.[1]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[2]

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