Now a city park, the farm includes the Morse home, a natural wooded area, and an open meadow.

[2] The Morse house, a colonial revival style home designed by UO architecture professor Wallace S. Hayden, was built in 1936.

This includes a small collection of copies of political cartoons featuring Wayne Morse, which were donated to him by the artists.

[1][4] Because of its importance to the political history of Oregon, the Morse house and surrounding park were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

The area known as the College Crest foothills had been previously logged, and the site of the future farm was covered in blackberries and poison oak.

Having lost all the money they had saved since they married in 1924 in the 1929 stock market crash, however, the Morses had to postpone purchasing the property.

After building a fence around the property, Morse purchased 100 Angora goats to eat the brush; he then sold them at a profit.

Later that year, water lines were being completed in the area and the Morse commissioned Wallace S. Hayden to design their new home.

[3] The picnic shelter, although not considered a contributing property for the National Register listing, was designed by the home's original architect, Wallace Hayden, in 1982.