Salem Heritage Network
In 1926 William W. and Lorena Chadwick made their home at this address. Mr. Chadwick had been in Salem for only a few years, having been the Postmaster in Canby before 1921. From 1932, Mr. Chadwick rose in his local hotel career. He was manager of the Senator Hotel, General Manager of the Chadwick Hotel Co...
This 1918 transitional box frame residence may have been owned by G. L. Busick from 1926 to 1940. Mr. Busick was the well-known owner and operator of Busick’s Market in the Bush-Brey Block downtown. In 1938, Charles Boyce, his wife Clara and son Charles lived there...
This was the home of Wolcott Buren, a prominent Salem physician, from 1935 to 1956. By 1961 Howard Belton, the Treasurer of the State of Oregon, lived here and remained for the next 20 years. It became a rental property until the present owners bought the house, livable but very worn out and overgrown...
This 1910 English cottage was built for Fred and Nellie Broer who lived there for more than twenty years. Its architecture resembles that of the Minto house at 831 Saginaw and may have been designed by the same person. (Grant)..
The words “Baptist Parsonage” have been pressed into the cement of the step leading up to the front door of this historic residence, always owned by the church next door. Pastors who lived there included Gustave W. Rutsch (1932-5), John F. Olthoff (1940-5) and Rudolph Wolke until 1954...
This 1921 bungalow-styled house was apparently built for Karl and Helen Becke. He was co-owner of the Becke and Hendricks Real Estate and Insurance Company. The Beckes resided three blocks south at 730 Summer Street. The earliest owner-occupants were William and Gertrude Walker who resided here in 1934...
William G Allen, a prominent Salem businessman who owned Allen Fruit Packing designed this house himself 1920 and had his own crew build it. It is of unusual design with features more usually found in homes of a sunnier climate. Allen and his wife owned it until 1954 when Charles and Ruth Jens bought it...
This farmhouse, across the road from the Kuebler house, is believed to have been the original Kuebler property, the home of Frederick and Janette Kuebler, parents of John and Lowell. The present owner recalls the name Townsend as being associated with the property...
Two brothers, E. Lowell and John H., both lived near their father on Rural Route 3 south of Salem in 1928. By 1958 that area was included in the city with John and his wife Ester identified as being at 235 Hrubetz Road in the home built in 1941. John may have died in 1984 as his name drops from the Directory temporarily...
This was probably one of the first houses along this country road. In the 1926 City Directory, Caroline M Hrubetz, a teacher at the High School is reported as living in this location, then Rural Route 3. Frank M Hrubetz, possibly her father, was located at box 138, same route...