Richard Petzold House

The Petzold House is significant to the McLaughlin Historic District as well as Clackamas County, as the best preserved example of a Craftsman-styled American Foursquare house. As such, it represents an architectural transition, both in style and in the careers of Clackamas County’s highly skilled carpenter-builders and inventors, Charles and Henry Vonderahe. The features which originally distinguished the Petzold House are virtually intact. This spacious residence was built in 1911 for Richard Petzold, a wellknown Oregon City businessman who operated a meat market and owned considerable property in downtown Oregon City. Petzold, a charter member of Zion Lutheran Church and a city councilman from 1920 to 1922, lived in the house with his family from 1911 until his death in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.