Marion Apartments, 610 Commercial Street NE. (D)

Research is beginning on this 1920 apartment building at the northeast corner of Commercial and Union Streets. The Sanborn map of 1926 shows the footprint as the building today, although the L section at the rear appears to have been constructed at a slightly different, lower elevation. The City Directory shows 16 apartments from the earliest listings.
The apartments show an elegant style that would have been attractive for short stays, such as 1920s state legislators or someone needing temporary quarters, or even the more prosperous commercial travelers: they might have been designed as suites rather than apartments. The rooms have high ceilings, large windows, wooden floors (under carpets), alcoves without doors for closets (some with small windows), small bathrooms and kitchens. Fireplaces are in some units. However, one unit has built-in storage drawers and a roll-out bed behind glass doors.
In 1989, the apartments were sold by Betty Louise Bradshaw, as a personal representative of Elma Childs, to C. Rex and Ruth M. Layton of Marion County. It passed into the ownership of the Boys and Girls Club and then to the present owner.
(CAN-DO)

Piasecki, 591 Cascade Drive NW, (LL)

Edward and Kathryn Piasecki were the original owners of this period style English Cottage, one of the first houses built in the Kingwood Heights area of West Salem. The Piaseckis moved to West Salem in 1920 when the house was built. A boating tragedy on the Oregon coast near Newport claimed the life of Edward and another Salem attorney in August of 1952 when he was 72 years old. Kathryn Piasecki continued to live in the house until 1965 when it was sold to the present owners.
(West Salem)

McIntire, 260 Superior Street S, (LL)

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. McIntire's death in 1935. Local legend relates that the McIntires were related to Franklin Roosevelt's personal physician, Ross McIntire.
(SCAN)

Sprague, 425 14th Street NE, (LL)

This English Tudor house was built for Charles and Blanche Sprague in 1920 to replace a house that was removed. He was, at the time, publisher of the Oregon Statesman and was elected Governor of the state in 1939 after which he held several political posts and then returned to publishing. The Sprague family lived here for 25 years. In 1956 it was sold to Chi Omega sorority of WU. See earlier photograph of the house, date unknown.

Bonesteele, 396 18th Street NE, (LL)

This house was built for Ralph Jones in 1912. His business was listed as Mollencop & Jones, where he was possibly a property appraiser. Owners by 1920 were Henry L. and Jennie Briggs; Mr. Briggs is listed as a fruit dealer in Salem City Directories. They lived here until 1930 when the house was sold to Russell and Valerie Bonesteele. Mr. Bonesteele was associated with other members of his family in the car business. He also served on the Salem Hospital Board and other community boards including the Salem City Council and was elected Mayor of Salem in 1959.
(NEN)

Robert Paulus, 1155 Summer St. NE, (LL)

This house was built c.1920 for Robert and Juanita Paulus and they resided here until the early 1930s. Mr. Paulus was sales manager for the Oregon Growers Cooperative Association. Later residents were D.B. and Edith Jarman. Modifications in the front of the house include two glass-enclosed porches, relocating the front door. Present owners are restoring the house as it was originally.
(Grant)

Allen, 901 Capitol Street NE, (LL)

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. She was the first female psychiatrist on this side of the Rockies and practiced in the house until 1998.
(Grant)

Lausanne Hall, 900 State St. (facing Winter St.), (LL)

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. The old wooden building was razed in 1919 and the present-day Lausanne Hall built for a new women's dormitory. See a photograph from the 1930s.
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Adolphson House, 870 D Street NE, (LL)

The first owners of this 1920 English Cottage style home were Albert and Doris Adolphson, proprietors of the Klasic Photo Shop who lived here until the late 1940s. Franklin and Doris Silkey were residents followed by Frank and Helen Lockman. The property was acquired by the State in 1959. It is now a part of the North Capitol Mall Heritage Park, a group of seven homes state-owed properties bordering the Mill Creek, south of D Street, between Summer and Winter Streets.
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Huntington, 830 D Street NE, (LL)

This house was designed by Clarence Smith and built for Hollis and Marjorie Kay Huntington in 1925 and was originally located at 250 Winter St., on property just behind the home of Mrs. Huntington's parents, Thomas B. and Cora Kay. Mr. Huntington was a coach at Salem High School and also owned "The Man's Shop" a clothing store in Salem.
The former Kay and Huntington properties are now the site of the Oregon State Library. When the North Capitol Mall was begun in 1937, the Kay house was demolished and the Huntington house moved to 790 Winter Street. The Huntingtons sold the house to William and E. F. Burrell in 1953. Dr. Burrell was a dentist.
The State acquired the property in 1959.
The house was moved to this location in 2002 as the North Capitol Mall expanded and is now a state office in the North Capitol Mall Heritage Park.
(CAN-DO)