Salem Heritage Network
Sam and Lottie Adolph were the first owners of this house; Mr. Adolph was secretary-treasurer of Rostein and Adolph, Inc., a property and casualty insurance company formed in 1931 by Adolph and his brother-in-law, Mr. Rostein. The Lottie Adolph resided here on the 5 acre estate as a widow and was followed by her son-in-law, Isadore Greenbaum...
Photograph above, courtesy of Salem (Oregon) Public Library Historic Photograph Collections, Koval collection of 1978.Dr. W. Carlton Smith may not have been the original owner of this 1894 house originally located at 1153 Oak Street (above) in the residential University Addition, platted in 1878...
As early as 1905, two Ratcliff names are found on the tax roles of Marion County, each with considerable property. On Rt. 4, in 1926 are found Charles and Effie Ratcliff. By 1941 he is listed as a prune grower and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Salem Co-operative Prune Growers...
This Craftsman house may have been one of the first erected on a forested hill, part of the Donation Land of Fabritus F. Smith and platted as lot # 5 of “Smith Fruit Farms” before 1929. The first owner is unknown, but by 1943 it was the residence of the Marggi family, remembered by neighbors of that time...
This former parsonage of Leslie Methodist Church was built 1894 at the southeast corner of Commercial and Myers Streets on land donated by George H. and Mary Leslie Jones. She was the daughter of Rev. David Leslie who was prominent in the establishment of Salem...
This International style residence was the 1953 retirement home for builder Paul Gray and his wife. Mrs. Gray died two years later and Mr. Gray sold the house to Viola and George Corrigan. When they moved in, George was already in poor health and he died in 1971...
This house was built in 1946 in one of the first post-World War II housing developments in Salem. All around were open fields of the former farmland. Relatively unchanged, it is a reminder of the renewed residential construction that gave homes to returning servicemen, like the teacher who first owned this house...
Built for the Henry Stevenson family in 1935, this one acre property and house was owned by Bud Stevenson, the second generation, until 2005. Recently remodeled, the house has retained its interior woodwork and room configuration. From the street, the house appears as it did 70 years ago when it joined the older houses on this suburban block...
No records have been located for this 1910 house before the property came into the city in 1953. In that year it was purchased from Bertie and Guy McHone by Steven S. and Teresa Solm. Current neighbors remember when it was of the large farms on this country road...