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Sunday May 26th
Oregon City Planning Department
The Planning Division is responsible for all long range and current planning as well as the implementation of the Oregon City Comprehensive Plan and associated Municipal Ordinances.
609 3rd Avenue - Anton Wenzel House c.1907

Statement of Significance: Anton Wenzel worked for Crown-Willamette Paper Company in West Linn. Every day he would row across the Willamette in a rowboat to work. In his later years with the mills, he worked as a night watchman. After retirement in the 1920s, he sold this house - which he built - to his in-laws, August and Matilda Guenther, and returned to his native Germany. The structure is a typical post-1900 Oregon City Vernacular house. In the NR District, it is classified as a Secondary structure.