What to See in Pendleton - Top Sights and Attractions

Museum in Mission, Oregon. The Tamástslikt Cultural Institute is a museum and research institute located on the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton in eastern Oregon. It is the only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail. The institute is dedicated to the culture of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla tribes of Native Americans. The main permanent exhibition of the museum provides a history of the culture of three tribes, and of the reservation itself. The museum also has a second hall for temporary exhibitions of specific types of Native American art, craftwork, history, and folklore related to the tribes.^[1]

Wildhorse Resort & Casino is a casino owned and operated since 1994 by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located 5 mi east of Pendleton, on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, near Interstate 84.^[2]

Museum, History museum, Historical place

Hall of fame. The Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon Hall of Fame, is a hall of fame located in Pendleton, Oregon, United States. Begun in 1969, it was the first hall of fame started by an individual show, the Pendleton Round-Up. Exhibits focus on show memorabilia, and cowboy and Native American artifacts, including a full-sized teepee, saddles, clothing, Indian regalia, photographs, weapons, trophies, and wagons.^[3]

Gift shop in Pendleton, Oregon. The Pendleton Center for the Arts is an arts center located in the historic former Umatilla County Library building, also known as Pendleton Public Library in Pendleton, Oregon, United States.^[4]

Shopping, Market

The Bowman Hotel is a historic three story brick hotel building located in Pendleton, Oregon, United States. The hotel was built in 1906 by Purl Bowman, a member a prominent pioneer family in Pendleton. The family lived near lower Birch Creek, Oregon. Bowman was a successful farmer and wool producer. He bought the hotel property in 1900 of a house on the site burned down. His cousin, Walter S. Bowman, was a prominent professional photographer in Pendleton. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 6, 1980.^[5]

Courthouse. The John F. Kilkenny United States Post Office and Courthouse, formerly the United States Post Office and Courthouse is a post office and a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, located in Pendleton, Oregon. Completed in 1916 under the supervision of architect Oscar Wenderoth, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. In 1984, the United States Congress renamed the building for John Kilkenny, a former judge of the District of Oregon and of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.^[6]

The Masonic Temple in Pendleton, Oregon is a historic building constructed in 1887. It was originally built as a meeting hall for Pendleton Lodge, with commercial space on the ground floor to help offset the cost of maintaining the meeting hall. It was listed on the listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Since its listing, the lodge had moved to a new building.^[7]