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)

Samuel Adolph, 2493 State Street NE, (NR)

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. In the early 1950s the house passed into their son David's ownership. It is now a professional office building. See 1992 photograph.
(NEN)

Carlton Smith, 1153 Oak Street, (LL)

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.
Dr. Smith was born in Marion County in 1874, graduated from the University of Oregon and University Medical College in Kansas, returning to Salem about 1903. Dr. Smith served as Major in World War II in France. He served as Salem's first city physician and county physician. He was professor of anatomy at Willamette University for ten years. Dr. Smith was elected to the Oregon Legislature, he died in 1929 while serving in the Legislature and was succeeded by his wife.
Evelyn Miner became owner of this home about 1949, it being willed to her by the previous owner. The next residents were Stewart and Esther Miner, her son and daughter in law. Esther was a nurse at Salem Hospital, then located three blocks away on Winter Street. Stewart worked for a company that built carnival rides, owned by an Eyerley, brother of the famous Western painter, Ray Eyerley.
The hospital eventually purchased the University residential properties between Winter and 12th Street, constructing medical facilities and parking lots. This house is one of two residences known to this researcher that survived by being purchased and moved to new locations.

This photograph was taken in 2008 at its present location on Cannon Street in the Morningside neighborhood.

Ratcliff, 970 Ratcliff Drive SE, (D)

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. In 1948, his home has the present address. The property is thought to have included land up to Morningside Drive. The city lot is now surrounded by newer houses, but one ancient prune tree survives in the rear of the house.
(Morningside)

Marggi, 735 Ratcliff Avenue SE, (D)

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. The houses along this gravel road were few and provided a country atmosphere in this neighborhood outside the city.
(Morningside)

Leslie Methodist Parsonage, 1305 Cannon Street SE, (LL)

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. He received a portion of the Mission land claim, a section between Mission and McGilchrist Streets. His home and orchard were on the property sold to Asahel Bush,near this property.
The congregation was organized as a Sunday School in 1866, becoming South Salem Church. In 1889 it was renamed Leslie Methodist Church. The congregation dwindled over the years and in 1982 this building was offered for sale. The new owner, Dr. David West, moved the parsonage and restored it for medical offices that opened in the next year.

(Morningside)

Gray, 3251 Bluff Avenue SE, (D)

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. Viola remarried twice and lived in the house 43 years, walking 2-3 miles a day around the neighborhood. The present owners bought the house from Viola, once again a widow, in 1998.
(Morningside)