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Significance

The Jefferson street canopy of 36 trees (about 75 years old) is a strong image in Corvallis and is a reflection of Corvallis' past when many streets were tree lined. It is unusual to find trees of this maturity and visual effect on a city street. Possibly the only other street in Corvallis that compares is west Harrison street. For these reasons, the Jefferson street trees should be protected and maintained as an important visual image in the Corvallis community. 

Significance

Architecturally, the Kiger House is the survey area's most elaborate example of Colonial Revival style of architecture used for a family residence. The house is associated with Dick Kiger a very well-known Corvallis resident.

Physical Description 

The Dick Kiger House is a two-story, wood-frame house built in a Colonial Revival style of architecture. Square in plan, the house rests on a poured concrete foundation. Above the wooden water table, the exterior walls are clad with horizontal clapboard siding. 

Significance

The George Whiteside House, with its intact design is architecturally significant as the best example, albeit late, of a house with Prairie style influence in the survey area. The house is also constructed "using stone tile", a building material which was new to the Corvallis area in the mid-1920's, and as such is one of the only houses to incorporate this material for construction in the survey area. Houses of this material were built in other parts of Corvallis. 

Significance

"Stephen Dow Beckham, 1976 

Significance

The Full Gospel Assembly Church building is the only Spanish Colonial Revival non-residential building remaining in downtown Corvallis. It is the only church building remaining on this portion of 4th Street, which at one time boasted numerous churches. The church is intact and is a good but simplified example of the style. 

Significance

The J. C. Avery Building, although altered to a great extent, is historically significant as Corvallis' oldest commercial building. The building is also associated with J. C. Avery, Corvallis' founder. Built in the 1850's, the building once served as a supply headquarters for miners heading south to the gold fields. The J.C. Avery Building is one of only three commercial buildings in downtown Corvallis to predate 1880. Since the 19th Century, the function of the building as a hardware and implement store has not changed. 

Rental properties are required to be registered with the City of Corvallis and subject to an annual rental housing fee. The fee increases by $1 every odd year. In light of the health pandemic, the fee will remain $15 until 2023. In 2023, the fee will increase to $16 per unit. The rental housing fee offsets costs associated with efforts to:

Significance

"Stephen Dow Beckham, 1976 

The Henderson Business Machine Building located on the site of the former Territorial Capitol of Oregon In Corvallis, Oregon, was erected about 1880. The building appears as a ""General Store"" on the Sanborn Insurance Map of Corvallis in 1884. 

Significance

Built in 1911. Corvallis' oldest auto garage. When it was built it was called the largest and most up-to-date garage in the state. Built by the Corvallis and Philomath Auto Company. Manager was C.O. Hathaway who sold Overland cars. The building was "fireproof" but none-the-less suffered a fire shortly after it was completed. Today the building has been extensively remodeled. Early photographs of this building illustrate how early auto garages resembled livery stables in appearance.

Significance

"Stephen Dow Beckham, 1976 

The A.J.'s Photo Lab Building is a rectangular, two-story, brick building located at the southwest corner of southwest Second and southwest Jefferson Streets in Corvallis, Oregon. This building is of brick construction but has been covered with an exterior of stucco. The fenestration has been altered on both the first and second floors. The original detail surviving is located on the second floor of the east (front) elevation and in the facade around the roof above the second floor on the east and north elevations.