Photograph above, courtesy of Salem (Oregon) Public Library Historic Photograph Collections, Koval collection of 1978.Dr. W. Carlton Smith may not have been the original owner of this 1894 house originally located at 1153 Oak Street (above) in the residential University Addition, platted in 1878.
Dr. Smith was born in Marion County in 1874, graduated from the University of Oregon and University Medical College in Kansas, returning to Salem about 1903. Dr. Smith served as Major in World War II in France. He served as Salem’s first city physician and county physician. He was professor of anatomy at Willamette University for ten years. Dr. Smith was elected to the Oregon Legislature, he died in 1929 while serving in the Legislature and was succeeded by his wife.
Evelyn Miner became owner of this home about 1949, it being willed to her by the previous owner. The next residents were Stewart and Esther Miner, her son and daughter in law. Esther was a nurse at Salem Hospital, then located three blocks away on Winter Street. Stewart worked for a company that built carnival rides, owned by an Eyerley, brother of the famous Western painter, Ray Eyerley.
The hospital eventually purchased the University residential properties between Winter and 12th Street, constructing medical facilities and parking lots. This house is one of two residences known to this researcher that survived by being purchased and moved to new locations.

This photograph was taken in 2008 at its present location on Cannon Street in the Morningside neighborhood.