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Lester and Hazel Murphy House

historic house in Hood River, Oregon, USA

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6531990 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lester and Hazel Murphy House is a historic house located in Hood River, Oregon, United States.

Description and history

The 1+1⁄2-story house displays many of the distinctive characteristics of the Dutch Colonial Revival style, with its rectilinear form, bilateral symmetry, gambrel roof with eave returns, paired quarter-circle windows on the gable ends and continuous front and rear shed dormers. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1990.

Editorial summary

“Lester and Hazel Murphy House” enters the record as historic house in Hood River, Oregon, USA. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lester, Hazel and Murphy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lester, Hazel and Murphy.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lester and Hazel Murphy House” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lester, Hazel and Murphy provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6531990. Authority coordinates are 45.708, -121.521. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lester and Hazel Murphy House”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lester and Hazel Murphy House primary sources, Lester and Hazel Murphy House archive and Lester research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lester and Hazel Murphy House”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lester and Hazel Murphy House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.