Through June 5, a room at the Oregon Historical Society Museum in Portland is dedicated to the Blanchet House of Hospitality, founded 70 years ago by a group of
Blanchet Farm, an offshoot of Blanchet House of Hospitality in Portland, was founded in 1962 inspired by the Catholic Worker Movement. A group of University of Portland alumni had named their ministry after the first archbishop in Oregon, Francis Norbert Blanchet. Volunteers already had been serving meals in Portland's Old Town for a decade but knew some homeless men needed a different place for healing.