Hoover lived there from 1885 to 1891, with his uncle and aunt John and Laura Minthorn.

The Minthorns were administrators of the Quaker school Friends Pacific Academy, now George Fox University, which Hoover and his brother Tad attended.

Representing vernacular design in the Willamette Valley, it was restored and opened to the public in 1955.

Owned and operated as a house museum by the Oregon chapter of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, it has been furnished with late 19th-century period furnishings, including the bedroom furniture used by Hoover as a boy.

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