Salem Heritage Network
First Church is the oldest Methodist Church west of the Rockies. The present building was constructed between the years 1870 and 1878. It is listed as a Methodist Landmark. Its tall white steeple, 185 feet above street level, is the highest structure in Salem...
This Willson Park feature was given to the City of Salem by Eugene and Werner Breyman in 1904 as a memorial to the Spanish American War. The ornate fountain had watering troughs for horses and dogs. The cast iron fountain shattered, but the remaining base has been restored...
Put in place on September 21, 1960, this marker honored both the state’s 100th anniversary in 1959 and the founding of the city of Salem by Jason Lee. He constructed a sawmill and dam here in 1840 and his home nearby a year later. The town grew up around this “high ground” along the creek...
For more than twenty-five years, Salem area residents danced here on Wednesday and Saturday nights to some of the best-known bands in the nation. Modern dancing was on the main floor and old time polkas, schottishes and two-steps upstairs. Ballroom dancing declined in popularity and the last “old time dance” was held in 1964...
Originally built as the Salem Post Office in 1903, this building was located behind the Marion County Courthouse on Church Street. It was moved to its present location by means of rollers moving slowly along State Street, a process taking six months in 1938...
The present-day Lausanne Hall stands on the site of another earlier Willamette University building also called Lausanne Hall, originally the home of Chloe Clark Willson, an early Methodist teacher. It was moved to the Willamette campus, serving as the main building for women’s studies, in 1888...
Eaton Hall, named for its principal benefactor A. E. Eaton, first served on the Willamette campus as the college of Liberal Arts Building. It was the first major building constructed after Waller Hall in 1867, and marked the beginning of major growth in the college...
Waller Hall, completed in 1867, is the oldest building on the Willamette University campus. Originally called University Hall, and later named after Alvin F. Waller, it was used for chapel services and classes. The building burned twice, first in 1891 when the top two floors were lost, and again in 1919 when only the shell of the building was left standing...
The Rose House property was owned by the Boise family and sold to John & Louisa Rose in 1901. The Roses lived at this address to the 1930s. Mr. Rose was a carpenter. They sold the house to Ray & Clara Farmer. Mr. Farmer was the proprietor of Farmer’s Hardware in Salem...
In 1909 the Salem School District invested $22,899 in this brick elementary school building, designed by Fred Legg, a local architect following a standard American Renaissance style. It closed in 1973 and the interior was renovated for offices. On its one-quarter city block, the property retains its traditional American school appearance...