Salem Heritage Network
During her 109 years, Luella Charlton lived in only two houses. She was born in the three-storied, cupola-crowned mansion built in 1872 across the street from the Capitol by her great-grandfather, Edwin Cooke. Her second home was this one, built in 1927 by Luella and her husband Carl, where she lived for 80 years...
This 1895 Victorian Queen Anne residence was designed by architect Charles Henry Burggraf as his own home. It was later the residence of Judge Daniel Webster, Justice of the Peace in Salem 1905-1918. The third owner was Julia Webster, the Judge’s daughter...
Charles and Myrtle White, and their sons Bob and Kenny, were the first of the family to create and runs this family-style restaurant. For 50 years it was run by the extended family, then the ownership passed to Don Uselman. Dining here continues to be a traditional experience, reminding diners of the décor and menus of restaurants enjoyed three generations ago...
This 1869 Gothic style residence was originally constructed at 862 Liberty Street NE by William L. Wade, owner of a dry goods store on the same block at 888 N. Liberty Street. (See 1971 photograph.) The house was later occupied by his son, Murray Wade, a well-known newspaper cartoonist in California and Oregon and publisher of the Oregon Magazine for 45 years...
This Italianate/Eastlake house was apparently built for Lewellen C. Scovell. In 1896 Alexander Daue bought the property and lived here with his wife Ida Mae Turner Daue until their new home was built. The Daues owned the property until 1945; during that time it was probably the residence of another Daue family member, Earle Daue and his wife Dorothy...
Built in the Italianate Bracketed style, this residence, for 73 years, the “home place” for the families of Fabritus Smith, his daughter Velleda Smith Ohmart and his grandson Roy V. Ohmart. Still virtually unaltered from its original appearance, it stands at the top of Nob Hill with a commanding view of urban development where there were once orchards and farmland..
This 1932 English Provincial house is one of the more significant homes of Fairmount Hill. Designed by Clarence Smith, with gardens created by Lord and Schryver, it has wide views over the city. High on a dead end street, only its hipped roof and front gable are visible beyond the driveway entrance...
This English cottage was designed by Clarence Smith for P. D. and Clara Quisenberry. The house has an exterior brick chimney, an entry deck with balustrade and a Tudor-arched entry door off deck. The house faces north on steep lot, deep setback with woodsy setting and steep informal steps up to house...
This stone English manor house designed by Clarence Smith, with its elements of Queen Anne style of architecture, is a unique residence in Salem. Built for Edgar and Ursula Pierce at a cost of $17,000, the family lived in the house from 1932 to 1935 and from 1940 to 1942...
This bungalow was built in 1914 for John and Almaretta (Retta) Pemberton. Mr. Pemberton died in 1915. Mrs. Pemberton lived here for many years; in 1928 her son Ray and his wife Lenora moved to the house and lived here into the 1960s. Ray Pemberton was a physician; he graduated from Willamette University Medical School in 1910 and practiced medicine in Salem until his death in 1966...