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20 S. Bonanza & 10 W. Main
Echo, OR 97826
Phone: 541-376-8411
Fax: 541-376-8218
Contact: Diane Berry, Executive Director
Email:
Hours: By appointment, Monday - Friday, 10 am - 4 pm.
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Oregon Museums Association / Eastern Oregon / Chinese House/OR&N Railroad Museum
Chinese House/OR&N Railroad Museum
http://www.echo-oregon.com/
For admittance, check in at City Hall, 20 South Bonanza.
Admission: Free, donations welcome
The Chinese House/OR & N Railroad Museum features Union Pacific and Oregon Railway and Navigation Company tools, photos and other items used in early Echo and in Oregon railroad operations. Historic photos of Echo and artifacts from Echo businesses are also on display. Patent medicine bottles, alcohol containers and a few Chinese artifacts excavated from the site of the "White House" privy pit by archaeological students in the mid-1990s are part of the collection. The museum name comes from the fact that railroad section headquarters in the late 1800s had a "China House" for Chinese workers and a "White House" for white laborers or the foreman and his family. Each house had its own privy pit. This museum was the original China House.
Also see St. Peter's Catholic Church, built in 1913 in the Portuguese Colonial Revival style with a stucco façade. No longer used for services, it was donated to the Fort Henrietta Foundation, which hopes to renovate the building. The interior includes a faux marble altar, ornate statuary, and stained glass windows.
Operated by the Fort Henrietta Foundation.
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