Breyman Boise House
Breyman-Boise House, Salem, Oregon. Likely before 1931 move. Al Jones Collection. Willamette Heritage Center 2004.010.0149. Built: 1884-1889 Demolished: 1972 Built as the [...]
August 2024
March 2019
Love Under Electric Lights
“A Woman Just Divorced, Weds Her First Love Beneath the Glare of an Electric Light,” read the headline. If they had had clickbait back [...]
April 2015
April 22, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent At the outbreak of the war the workforce was overwhelmingly male. In all sectors of the economy employing “breadwinners” [...]
March 2015
March 27, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The editorial in the Saturday edition of the Capital Journal comments upon the apartments under construction on Court Street: [...]
July 2014
Bromo-Seltzer, 1933
Got a headache? In 1933, you may have hopped down to the Woolpert & Legg's Drugstore, located on the corner of Court and Liberty Streets [...]
January 2014
Mild Weather in Comparison, 2002.026.0001
A view of Miller’s Department Store in Salem (now known as Reed Opera House building) at the SW corner of Liberty [...]
February 2013
Ray L. Farmer Hardware Store, Salem
R.L. Farmer Hardware Store at the NE corner of Court and Commercial Streets in downtown Salem. Photos from Willamette Heritage Center Collections. [...]
August 2005
Historic 467 Court
467 Court Street (Historic Downtown Salem) Classification: Historic Contributing Historic Name: D'Arcy Building Current Name: Whitlock's Vacuum Cleaner Clinic Year of Construction: 1909 Legal [...]
Historic 429 Court
429 Court Street (Historic Downtown Salem) Classification: Historic Contributing Historic Name: Ada and Mark Skiff Block Current Name: Offices Year of Construction: c.1906 Legal [...]
Historic 377 Court
377 Court Street (Historic Downtown Salem) Classification: Non-Historic Non-Contributing Historic Name: N/A Current Name: India Palace Restaurant Year of Construction: 1960s Legal Description: 073W22DC07600; [...]