The Gordon House

The Gordon House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957 and was moved to The Oregon Garden in 2002. It is the only Frank Lloyd Wright designed building in Oregon and the only one in the Pacific Northwest that is open to the public. 

The house was designed to follow Wright's "Usonian" model, a design concept that changed the course of small house construction. His innovations included an open floor plan, gravity floor heat, carports, cantilevered roofs with broad overhangs and floor-to-ceiling windows.

Wright designed the home for Conrad and Evelyn Gordon for their farm on the south side of the Willamette River in Wilsonville. The house was completed in 1964, and the Gordons lived there for over thirty years.

Descendants of the Gordons sold the property in 2000. The new owners agreed to donate the property to the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy with a requirement that the house be moved off the property. In January, 2001, The Oregon Garden agreed to move the house by a March 15 deadline. The house was moved 24 miles south to The Oregon Garden where it was restored and dedicated as a public museum in March 2002.

Tours of The Gordon House are available. The tours are conducted by knowledgeable and entertaining docents who cover the theories and practices of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, the story of how an Oregon farm family commissioned Mr. Wright to design their new home, the near destruction of the home in 2000 and the rescue, dismantling, moving and reconstruction of the house at The Garden.

Please Call 503-874-6006 to make your reservation for a tour of the Gordon House. Tours are not guaranteed without reservations.

The Gordon House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Click here for more information on The Gordon House.