Claim: The Hoover–Minthorn House is a vernacular Italian villa- style museum that was built in 1881.
Evidence: The Hoover–Minthorn House is a museum in Newberg, Oregon, United States, created from the residence of Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States. Representing vernacular design in the Willamette Valley, it was restored and opened to the public in 1955. The house, an Italianate design built in 1881 by Jesse Edwards, a Quaker merchant, is the first residence Edwards built and the oldest house still standing in what is now Newberg, Oregon. 1881