"Tract House", 2116 Park Avenue NE, (D)

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. The second owners were Olga and Hilda Ask, who had retired from farming. It is still in possession of the third owners.
(Lansing)

Stevenson, 1985 Park Avenue NE, (D)

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.
(Lansing)

McHone, 2475 Lansing Avenue NE, (D)

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.
(Lansing)

Kitchen/Miles, 2285 Lansing Avenue NE, (D)

Originally owned by Ed Kitchen, Ross Miles bought this 1920s house in 1939. It is relatively unchanged since they left in 1959. As orchard and farmland along the roadway were sold for building lots at the conclusion of World War II, smaller houses began filling the spaces. Only a few older ones remain as a reminder of the original appearance of this quiet, tree-lined road.
(Lansing)

Reynolds, 2390 Liberty Street NE, (LL)

The Reynolds family were apparently the first owners of this house c. 1905 according to city records. John Reynolds was Dean of the Willamette Law School 1902-1907 and was instrumental in organizing North Salem prune farming ~ perhaps on this property. The present owners (since 1976) had to take down one old prune tree that was 100 years old.

Records previous to the construction of the house, show that in the late 1800s the property was passed, in various combinations of ownership, among female members of the WU faculty and Pres. Van Scoy. All were active in the women suffrage movement.

L. R. Peebles was a carpenter/builder who owned the house from 1911 to 1919. The house was plumbed and wired in 1922. In the 1920s, the Rankin family probably built the structure in the rear which appears to have been used to develop photographic film for a son's business. A photograph of the property was taken in 1929. Other owners, before 1976, were Harriet Chenowith and her husband and John Stapleton.
(Highland)

MacDonald, 1335 MacDonald Street NE, (D)

This farmhouse was accessed from Portland Road until the RR Underpass was created in 1936. The property was owned from 1920 to 1948 by the John McDonald family for whom the new street was named. After that date, it had many occupants and was converted in to apartments in 1968. For several years it was unoccupied. The current owners have been remodeling what had become a business address.
(Highland)

Immanuel Baptist Church, 1997 Hazel Avenue NE, (LL)

This 1890s building was originally the German Baptist Church in Salem; the original church minutes are in German. The church building is relatively intact, both interior and exterior, the interior featuring the original gas light fixture adapted for electrical use, a full baptistery, wooden wainscoting and the original wooden pews.
(Highland)