Rinehart’s Stone House Museum

The Old Stone House, also known as the Stone House Hotel, Rinehart House or Rinehart Stone House Museum, is a building and museum located in Vale, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was the first permanent building in the community of "Stone House", renamed to "Vale" in 1887.

It is a 26 by 40 feet (7.9 m × 12.2 m) building from Oregon's early settlement period, built of local sandstone in 1872. It has imitation Italianate-style elements in its shallow hipped roof, overhanging eaves, and round arch heads over its windows and door on the first story. It originally had a front porch with a deck served by a doorway in the center of its second floor.

The Rinehart Stone House, built in 1872, was the first permanent building in Malheur County. This rustic sandstone building was located on the Oregon Trail replacing an earlier log house built by Jonathan Keeney. The Stone House provided a wayside stop for weary travelers until the early 1900s. It was also a haven for settlers during the Bannock Paiute uprising of 1878 and served as Field Headquarters for General O.O. Howard. Today, the recently restored Stone House is a museum displaying period relics and photos, along with interpretative exhibits about the Oregon Trail.

The museum is conveniently located on Main Street South in downtown Vale.

Open to visitors from May 1 to October 30
Tuesday through Saturday, from 12:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Tours arranged by appointment.

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