Salem Heritage Network
Present location on D Street
This house, located on the corner of Oak and University Streets, was the residence of the John G. West, father of Oswald West, later governor of Oregon. In the mid 1890s the house was sold to C...
The earliest owner, but perhaps not the first, was Dr. Vinyard for whom the street is named. His widow lived there in 1956 when the present owner purchased the house. Nina Bilyeu, now a widow herself, remembers when the open acres across Center Street were fields with grouse and pheasant...
This house, originally at 774 Winter Street, was built c.1896 for Amos Long, a teacher in the North Salem School. Oscar Moon bought the property in 1911 and resided there until 1941. After the 1940s the house was a rental. It was acquired by the State of Oregon in 1963; privately purchased in the 1990s (before the construction of the North Capitol Mall Office Building on that site) and moved to D Street...
Heffley home on Garden Road circa 1911
Same house on Ellis street today
The Heffley family settled on a 100 acre farm just east of the Salem city limits between Garden Road (now Market Street) and “D” Street. Evidently the farming enterprise went well as Theodore built a fine home on the property before 1911...
This property was owned by R. P. Boise from the time it was platted until it was sold to the German Methodist Episcopal South Church for use as a parsonage in 1894. The church paid $500 for the property at 772 Winter Street, indicating that there was a dwelling on the property at that time...
Traditionally, this was a dairy farm extending east from the State Hospital to what is now Lancaster Drive and south to Center Street. The descendents of Henry Washington White, a minister of the Church of God, believe the house was built or renovated by him in 1911...
This property was purchased by Hugh V. Matthews in 1889 and sold to David Matthews in 1895. In the 1896 Salem Directory he was residing at the site of this house. In 1935 Victor and Maybelle Woodfield bought the house. It was later divided into apartments...
This house was apparently built in 1927 by D. A. and Etta Hodge for their daughter Margaret Rosecrans, a widow, and clerk for the State Highway Commission. Mrs. Rosecrans resided here until 1942 at which time it was sold to John and Lela Jerman. Later owners were Linn C...
This house was built in 1936 for Charles H. and Aubra (Polly) Strickfadden. Mr. Strickfadden was manager and later president of the Capital Lumber Company, a pioneer in the production of presto logs. The Mill was located on North Cherry Avenue; after it burned, it was not rebuilt, however the old log pond is visible at Cherry Avenue across from the industrial park...
This 1886-88 vernacular style residence has a unique two-story rectangular bay window angling from the front corner. A white birch in the front yard has been designated as a Heritage Tree. It was built for Charles C. Stratton, Methodist minister, Chancellor of Willamette University and husband of Julia Eleanor Waller, daughter of Alvin Waller...