Salem Heritage Network
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...
The plaque attached to the southeast support identifies this as the Southern Pacific RR Underpass,Built under Cooperative Agreement by the US Bureau Of Public Roads, Oregon State Highway Commission. Kern & Kibbe, Contractors. The date is 1936...
In 1919 Curtis B. Cross, Fred and William Steusloff and A. N. Bush founded the Valley Packing Company. In 1924 an addition was made. Occupying 55 acres just west of the Southern Pacific Railway crossing on Portland Road, it was the only U.S. Inspected full-line meat processing plant in the state outside of Portland...
In 1858, using lumber from his sawmill, Adam Stephens built a home and began a community. The first burial in a small nearby cemetery was that of his infant, namesake son. That cemetery still remains, a loving memory to this pioneer family and their neighbors who established the present North Salem Baptist Church...
This residence was built by Oscar D. (Frosty) Olson and his wife Marie on what was then Rural Rt. 7 on Portland Road. A florist, his business still continues in the original Court Street location after more than 80 years. His friends still remember that the Columbus Day windstorm of 1963 completely destroyed his three greenhouses adjacent to his home...
When the Franklin family lived in their Portland Road residence, this cabin was moved there from Lloyd Reynold’s home nearby. He had previously used it as a “clubhouse” for his gentlemen friends ~ a place where they could play cards and smoke their cigars away from women-folk’s disapproval...
In 1928 Orie F. Franklin and his wife Maude moved into their new home near the family business, Standard Cleaners and Dyers. The house was connected to Portland Road by way of foot and vehicle bridges over the Claggett Creek, but neither exists today...
In 1934 Victor LaDue built this home for his parents on five acres of family property. In 1946, the house was moved to its present one-acre location when the entrance to McKay School was constructed. Maxine LaDue Gibbs and her husband Clay raised their five children here...
Walter and Ella Munson Davis, had a contractor build this house in 1925 according to her design. Ella’s parents lived on this same rural road. The house is as it was built: only the tile roof replaced and minor interior renovations made. The house is filled with light, having 33 windows...
William Munson’s household here included wife Margaret and 6 children who maintained the farm and cherry orchard in the early 1900s. Son Andrew and his wife Miranda stayed on here with their family after Margaret died. The Depression forced the second generation of the family to abandon the house to work on the orchards of West Salem...