Louise Home Hospital and Residence Hall

722 N.E. One Hundred and Sixty-second Ave., Gresham, Oregon. County/parish: Multnomah.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 10, 1987. NRIS 87001556.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Kerr Youth and Family Center

From Wikipedia:

Louise Home Hospital and Residence Hall

The Louise Home Hospital and Residence Hall is an historic hospital and residence hall in Gresham, Oregon, United States. Built in 1925, it originally served as a place of residence for unwed and pregnant mothers. It also housed the disabled, and served as a women's educational institution. The hospital and its surrounding 17-acre (6.9 ha) campus—surrounded by Douglas fir trees—is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Contemporarily, it is the headquarters of the Albertina Kerr Centers for Children, a mental health institution in the Portland metropolitan area.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77851103

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