Oregon's Most Endangered Places

The most strikingly ornate house in town. A bridge that has crossed your favorite stretch of river for a century. The oldest grocery store in the county. A landscape that has been home to human activity long before settlers arrived. A brick apartment building that was once the studio of a famous author.

Any given map of Oregon is dotted with places that tell stories of the past; places that continue to live on not only in memory but in reality. Everyday places that people have occupied, visited, and loved for 40, 100, 200 years. But even today, with our appreciation of history, culture, and sustainability, significant places regularly disappear from the map due to blatant neglect, unnecessary demolition, zealous development, and natural factors. In most cases, these places could have been saved and communities made richer through their preservation and continued use.

The HPLO publishes an annual list of Oregon’s Most Endangered Places, an annual register of those historic buildings, and sites, and districts, and structures, and landscapes that need a little extra attention in order to make it to the second phase of their lives. As for the specific places that make it on this year’s list? That’s where you come in.

Oregonians across the state are invited to nominate a broad spectrum of places that matter to them. Whether grand or humble, east or west, public or private, settler, victorian or mid-century modern..

Ermatinger House

The Ermatinger House being moved

The 2012 Nomination Form is Now Available

Don't miss your opportunity to help savethe endangered places that are important to you. The deadline for nominations is Monday, March 26th.
2012 Nomination Form

The 2012 Luncheon

This year's list of Oregon's Most Endangered Places will be announced May 22, 2012 at a special luncheon at the University Club in downtown Portland. Tickets will be available March 1.

The 2011 List


Watson- Price Barn

The Watson-Price Barn