The Dalles #6: Robert Pentland House

402 West Fourth Street

Robert Pentland House on June 10, 2009

This Italianate Victorian house was built in the mid-1860s by Robert Pentland and was the first house in The Dalles to have running water. Pentland was the city councilor who helped implement the first street system and the first water system in The Dalles in 1862 at the head of Mill Creek, which is now an integral part of The Dalles Municipal Water System. Robert Pentland also built the first flour mill in The Dalles in 1866 on Mill Creek where West Third and West 4th streets come together, just down the street from this house. The site is now an open grassy area. In 1878 the house was sold to Dr. William Shackelford, a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War, who lived here until his death in 1919.

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