Destinations of Interest Outside Portland

Chinese House Railroad Museum
210 W. Main
Echo, 97826
541.376.8411
Circa. 1883 Chinese laborer bunk-house; features from Echo and T. Henrietta archaeological site artifacts; check in at City Hall for admittance.

>High Desert Museum
59800 S. Hwy. 97
Bend, 97702
541.382.4754
From the mid-19th century on, Chinese stores cropped up in Western towns to provide Chinese miners and laborers with familiar goods and services. Stepping into the Hi Loy Chinese Store in the Museum’s Silver City, visitors hear laughter and conversation in Cantonese amid the clatter of mah jong tiles.

Kam Wah Chung and Co. Museum
City Park on Canton Road,
John Day, 97845
541.575.0547
The Kam Wah Chung Building was a general store and herbal medicine shop. Two-thirds of the museum is devoted to Chinese objects, including herbal medicines (some are the only extant examples of particular herbs used by Chinese doctors at the turn of the century), Chinese-made furniture, clothing, shrines, Chinese shipping boxes, photos of workers and tools, etc.

Pendleton Underground Tours
 37 S.W. Emigrant Ave.
Pendleton, 97801
541.276.0730
Visit Pendleton's historic subterranean district, which includes a portrayal of Chinese living quarters and a laundry.

University of Oregon Museum of Art
U of O Campus
Eugene, 97403
541.686.3027
The Chinese collection is a permanent display of Ming and Qing paintings, textiles, furniture, glass, jewelry, tomb figurines, laquerware and other items.

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