roseburg oregon where can i find info on the parrot house?

Question

i believe this is the name of the home it is located in the southgate area of roseburg it is a huge pink house very old.. it appears to have a round room at the top and i am intrigued but i am not sure of the spelling and all sights i have been to are very shallow to vauge to get me the info i am looking for

Answer 1

The Parrott house is famous throughout the Southern Oregon area. Many, many people have told me it's haunted (but I've never been in it to see if I experienced anything personally). If you want to learn more about it, I would drop over to the Douglas county museum at the fairgrounds or visit their website at http://www.douglascountyhistoricalsociety.org/contact.htm
and have them direct you to more information on the home and Moses Parrott and his family. It is very possible that they have a copy of the information the Rice family collected on the house (see the News Review article mentioned in the previous answer for details).

Additional information:
I did a quick search on Moses Parrott on family search (http://www.familysearch.org ) and found that in 1880, Moses was 56 years old., born in Wales. Three of his sons were shoemakers and he had at least 8 children (which explains the large house!). The children living at home ranged from 23 to 5 years old. Another book indicates that he was also a shoemaker and that the home was built in 1891 (Northwest Victorians By Kenneth Naversen, http://books.google.com/books?id=OxBqJ3X9KFIC&pg=PT38&lpg=PT38&dq=moses+parrott+oregon&source=web&ots=AOjJ1Ei7vR&sig=KHwgVw-u-RmDabC8nxquNoIqRRc#PPT38,M1). Since the house is on the historic register (since 1990), every year they have to publicize when the home will be open to the public for 4 hours. You should be able to go visit it then if you wanted to see it without disturbing the new owners (since 2005). I think they also open it at Christmas for a tour of homes, but I don't know if the new owners participate in this or not.

Good luck - it's a great house. Wonder what it sold for....(guess I could go look that up at the County Assessors office)

Answer 2

Parrot House Roseburg Oregon

Answer 3

when I was a young child about 3 til 5 in about 1970 we lived on south Jackson st and that house was at the end of the road. I allways found it very intereting and all us kids in the nabor hood just called it the haunted house. we left Roseburg when I was in the 1st grade but I was very pleased to learn its still there and now historic

Answer 4

Here are a couple of sites that might offer some information:

http://photos.salemhistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/max&CISOPTR=350&REC=4

http://www.newsreview.info/apps/pbcs.dll/tngallery?Avis=NR&Dato=20050722&Kategori=PHOTO05&Lopenr=722001&Ref=PH

Good luck. You may not need to enter the ENTIRE address above, but if you do it will show you some good information on the Parrott House