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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:125 Hwy 82 historic name:Lostine Pharmacy
Lostine, Wallowa County (97857) current/other names:Lostine Tavern
assoc addresses:
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):2.0 total elig resources:1 total inelig resources:1
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:1900 second date: date indiv listed:11/24/2014
primary orig use: Business orig use comments:
second orig use: Restaurant
primary style: Late 19th/20th Amer. Mvmts: Other prim style comments:
secondary style: Commercial (Type) sec style comments:
primary siding: Stone:Other/Undefined siding comments:
secondary siding: Wood:Other/Undefined
plan type: 2-Part Block architect:
builder:Simon L. McKenzie
comments/notes:
Other historic functions: Commerce/Trade: Business, Health Care: Medical business/office, Social: Meeting Hall. Current functions: Commerce/Trade: Restaurant, Commerce/Trade: professional
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Survey/Grouping Included In: Type of Grouping Date Listed Date Compiled
   Lostine Downtown RLS 2014 Survey & Inventory Project 2014
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 11/24/2014
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date: 08/12/2014
106 Project(s): None
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
ARCHITECTURAL / PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
Constructed in 1900 in its namesake city, the Lostine Pharmacy is located in the Wallowa Valley of Northeastern Oregon along state highway OR 82 in the city’s historic commercial core. The Lostine Pharmacy fills the vast majority of the lot, and there are no notable landscaping features. The building consists of two distinct historic volumes constructed of native Bowlby Stone and a non-historic addition. The main volume historically housed the pharmacy and is a two-story two-bay-wide masonry building in the two-part block commercial form with a flat synthetic roof and stepped-stone parapet. Built concurrently with the main volume and using the same materials, the smaller one-story historic Dr. Seeley’s office is located on the northeast corner of the main building and shares a party wall; though Dr. Seeley’s business was not established until 1905. A 1980s wood-frame addition clad in standing-seam metal extends from the rear (west) of the office projection and wraps around the north and west walls of the main volume. The building’s primary character-defining historic features are rusticated stone blocks, a wood-framed ground-level storefront on the main facade, and segmental stone arches above the main facade openings. The first-floor interior encloses a single large open room in each of the historic volumes that are connected with a paired opening. The second-floor space in the main volume includes a stair landing, two smaller rooms, closet, and public meeting room. Many of the original interior details and features are still extant, including the cedar flooring and bead board cladding on the ceiling. Moved to the site in the 1970s, a non-contributing wood-framed wood-fiber shingle building is located behind the Pharmacy in the northwest corner of the lot.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The Lostine Pharmacy is locally significant under Criterion A in the area of Health and Medicine as the community’s only pharmacy and location of the town’s first professional doctor’s office. A prominent building within the small downtown landscape, the Lostine Pharmacy exhibits a strong association with the practice of local medicine and the larger trends in the medical field, including the professionalization of the pharmaceutical industry. The building hosted a pharmacy owned by Simon L. McKenzie between 1900 and 1951, and, earlier in this period, the first “modern” doctor’s office in Lostine, which served as a short-term, complimentary business owned and operated by Dr. Eberle Randolph Seeley. The Lostine Pharmacy building is also eligible under Criterion A, Social History, as the home of Lostine Masonic Lodge #123, which held meetings on the second floor from 1906 until 1962. In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, fraternal organizations were important forums for members to meet and discuss the affairs of their communities. The Lostine Masonic Lodge #123 is a highly representative and the last remaining local example of a fraternal hall. The building retains high material integrity, including the organization of the primary spaces used as the Lostine Pharmacy, Dr. Seeley’s Dr. Office, and the Masonic Lodge during the period of significance.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
Title Records Census Records Property Tax Records Local Histories
Sanborn Maps Biographical Sources SHPO Files Interviews
Obituaries Newspapers State Archives Historic Photographs
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Bibliography:
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