Thomas Benton Hoover House

The Thomas Benton Hoover House is a historic house located in Fossil, Oregon, United States. The house is constructed in two stories with clapboarded outer walls. It was built in 1882 by Thomas Benton Hoover, an early Euro-American settler and prominent Fossil citizen. Hoover was Fossil's first merchant (along with a partner), mayor, justice of the peace, and postmaster, as well as an early county commissioner and director of schools. He named Fossil for a paleontological find on his property in 1876.[1]

Thomas Benton Hoover House
The Hoover House in 2011
LocationFirst Street between Adams and Washington streets, Fossil, Oregon
Coordinates44°59′59″N 120°12′57″W
Area0.375 acres (1,520 m2)[1]
Built1882
NRHP reference No.78002328
Added to NRHPApril 14, 1978

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[2]

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