SHINE on Salem

This 1910 residence was built for Charles Vick, a prominent Salem businessman. He also constructed the historic Vick Building downtown on Trade Street. He is noted for donating $500 to the American Red Cross and for being the first motorist to cross the Center Street bridge in 1918, driving a Fordson tractor, to the applause of hundreds of bystanders...

On February 8, 1923, Edwin R. and Marie Viesko purchased property from E.A. and Elsie Rhoten for $450. By 1924, Ed and Marie Viesko were living at this address in Salem’s Nob Hill subdivision.

During the 1920s, Ed Viesko worked with his father in construction and started building homes, but selling the houses was challenging because of the Depression...

In 1929, Douglas McKay, his wife Mabel and daughters Shirley and Marylou, moved to this house on Jerris Street. Mr. McKay, a veteran of World War I, had moved to Salem in 1926 and founded a Chevrolet auto dealership. In 1941, Mabel McKay and the landscape gardening firm of Lord and Schryver created a garden there...