Imbrie Farm

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Imbrie Farm is a historic home and farm in Hillsboro, Oregon. The Italian Villa–style house was built by Robert Imbrie starting in 1855 and finished about 1869. The property covers about 3 acres. The Imbrie family were early Oregon settlers and lived there for more than a century.

The main house is a three-story building once called the Gables. Original farm buildings included the home, an eight-sided barn, and a shed. The family used Morgans as draft animals, then Frank Imbrie turned the farm into a dairy and added the eight-sided barn around 1900. Electricity and indoor plumbing came in during the 1930s.

James Hay, Frank’s son, shifted the farm to grain and hay farming, including barley used in Blitz-Weinhard beer in the mid-1900s. Farming stopped in the 1970s. In 1977 Gary Imbrie opened the Imbrie Farmstead Restaurant at the old home. In 1984 Donald and Billie Jean Herman bought the property and kept running the restaurant until they leased it to McMenamins. In 1986 McMenamins took over, restored the buildings, and turned the site into the Cornelius Pass Roadhouse, a brewpub. The Roadhouse is located at 4045 NW Cornelius Pass Road and includes a brewery, a distillery, outdoor meadows and groves, the Octagonal Barn, Imbrie Hall, and the 1866 Italianate Roadhouse. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 15, 1977.