Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site Adds More Tours For The Rest Of 2025 Season (Photo) - 08/26/25
SALEM, Oregon— Tours of the historic building will be offered eight times a day Thursday through Monday starting this week and running through October when the building closes for the season.
Previously, the tours were offered three days a week due to low staffing levels this year. Now both the historic building and the Interpretive Center will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Monday. Access to the Kam Wah Chung building is only available during guided tours.
The Kam Wah Chung building is a National Historic Landmark that preserves the home and businesses of two Chinese immigrants, Ing "Doc" Hay and Lung On. For more than 60 years the building was a social, medical and religious center for Oregon's Chinese community.
Tours of the historic building will run at the top of every hour, the last one beginning at 4 p.m. The free, 45-minute historic building tour begins at the Interpretive Center at 125 NW Canton Street in John Day. Space is limited to 8 people per tour.
For more information or questions about booking tours and operating hours, please call the park office at 541-575-2800.
If you don’t have the opportunity to visit this heritage site, you can learn more about the site and Chinese American history in Oregon through these online resources:
- Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project
- National Historic Landmark Nomination: Kam Wah Chung Company Building
- Oregon Encyclopedia: Chinese Americans in Oregon and Kam Wah Chung and Co.
- Oregon Historical Society: Beyond Chinatown: Uncovering Oregon’s Rural Chinese History and Centering Chinese History in Oregon and Herbs & Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace
