I.O.O.F. Hall/Grand Opera House/Grand Theatre/Grand Hotel
IOOF HAll at the southwest corner of High and Court Streets in Salem. Photo taken after 1915. WHC Collections 2007.001.1702 The building [...]
August 2020
Central Stage Terminal and Hotel Company, 1921-1928
Advertisement. Oregon Magazine. December 1924. WHC Collections 2008.038.0048b Salem Gets Stage Terminal The bold headline read on August 7, 1921 in the Oregon [...]
Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Oddfellows I.O.O.F.
Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Oddfellows I.O.O.F. Detail. I.O.O.F. Letter head from certificate. WHC Collections, 2012.077.0023. Three decades after [...]
July 2020
Obed Dickinson
Letterhead for Obed Dickinson's Seed Business. WHC collections 2015.018.0042. I have found there is an almost eerie phenomenon that happens working in [...]
June 2020
Class of 1937 Celebrated Graduation Despite Hospitilization
In 1937, graduation was held for 11 students at the Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital in Salem, Oregon.
May 2020
Obituary: Leslie Junior High School Building (1927-2020)
The Leslie Junior High Building at 710 Howard St SE in Salem was torn down in the Spring of 2020. Learn more about its construction and siting back in 1926-27 and the drama that ensued.
March 2020
Spanish Influenza – Sproed Family
Herman and Louisa Sproed family. From left to right, Herman, Edward, John, Louisa, and baby Joseph. Taken in Minnesota, 1901-1902, with permission from [...]
February 2020
Filipino Club of Salem
Last week (January 24, 2020) the Willamette Heritage Center (WHC) opened a new exhibit looking at the history of clubs and organizations in the [...]
Radio St. Valentine Contest – Clara Virginia Barton
Grebe Synchrophase ad from the October 1924 issue of Radio in the Home magazine. Americanradiohistory.com In February 1925 Cupid delivered a very [...]
Fred Legg, Lausanne Hall and the Deaconness Hospital
Tale of Two 1920 buildings tell of Salem a Century Ago 100 years ago, Fred Arthur Legg1 was pretty busy. The dawning of the [...]