GORDON HOUSE
Hours and Fees.
May - September: 11 am - 5 pm (last guided tour begins at 4 pm) October - April: 11 am - 4 pm (last guided tour begins at 3 pm) Guided tours of the house are $5 and begin on the top of the hour Tour reservations are necessary. Please call (503) 874-6006
Visit The Gordon House website at: www.thegordonhouse.org
Gordon House
The Gordon House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, widely heralded as the greatest architect of the 20th Century. It is the only 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 in 1957 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.
GORDON HOUSE HOURS & FEES
May - September: 11 am - 5 pm (last guided tour begins at 3 pm)
October - April: 10 am
- 4 pm (last guided tour begins at 3 pm)
Guided tours of the house are $5 and begin on the top of the hour
Tour reservations are necessary. Please call (503) 874-6006
Visit The Gordon House website at: www.thegordonhouse.org
GORDON HOUSE EVENTS
Call 503/874-6006 for more information about these annual events:
March: Best of Oregon Winemakers Dinner (in September too)
May: Mother's Day Tea, Lunch, & Tour
June: Frank Lloyd Wright's Birthday Celebration
October: A Taste of Frank Lloyd Wright in Portland
Rent the Gordon House for your private event.
Donations and Memberships to support the preservation and restoration of the Gordon House may be made by contacting the museum office at 503-874-6006.
The Gordon House Conservancy is a non-profit corporation recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt (501(c)(3)) corporation. Contributions to The Gordon House are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
