Salem Heritage Network
Research is beginning on this 1920 apartment building at the northeast corner of Commercial and Union Streets. The Sanborn map of 1926 shows the footprint as the building today, although the L section at the rear appears to have been constructed at a slightly different, lower elevation...
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Edward and Kathryn Piasecki were the original owners of this period style English Cottage, one of the first houses built in the Kingwood Heights area of West Salem. The Piaseckis moved to West Salem in 1920 when the house was built. A boating tragedy on the Oregon coast near Newport claimed the life of Edward and another Salem attorney in August of 1952 when he was 72 years old...
This Bungalow was probably built for Helen or Laura Adkins in 1917. The property changed hands several times with the Adkins having an interest in it from 1910 through 1924. In 1924 Charles and Addie McIntire bought the house and lived there until Mrs...
This English Tudor house was built for Charles and Blanche Sprague in 1920 to replace a house that was removed. He was, at the time, publisher of the Oregon Statesman and was elected Governor of the state in 1939 after which he held several political posts and then returned to publishing...
This house was built c.1920 for Robert and Juanita Paulus and they resided here until the early 1930s. Mr. Paulus was sales manager for the Oregon Growers Cooperative Association. Later residents were D.B. and Edith Jarman. Modifications in the front of the house include two glass-enclosed porches, relocating the front door...
William G Allen, a prominent Salem businessman who owned Allen Fruit Packing designed this house himself 1920 and had his own crew build it. It is of unusual design with features more usually found in homes of a sunnier climate. Allen and his wife owned it until 1954 when Charles and Ruth Jens bought it...
The present-day Lausanne Hall stands on the site of another earlier Willamette University building also called Lausanne Hall, originally the home of Chloe Clark Willson, an early Methodist teacher. It was moved to the Willamette campus, serving as the main building for women’s studies, in 1888...
The first owners of this 1920 English Cottage style home were Albert and Doris Adolphson, proprietors of the Klasic Photo Shop who lived here until the late 1940s. Franklin and Doris Silkey were residents followed by Frank and Helen Lockman. The property was acquired by the State in 1959...