National Register Listing

Buehner, Philip, House

a.k.a. Armstrong Hall

5511 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR
Local significance of the building:
Industry; Engineering; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

The Oregon Vortex, located near Gold Hill, Oregon, is a place where the laws of physics seem to be distorted. Objects appear to roll uphill, people's heights appear to change, and other unusual phenomena have been reported.