Beautiful gardens abound in Salem, but here’s a peek at two I’ve visited recently. The first is the garden of my “garden mentor” Irene. Years ago the late Oregonian garden columnist Dulcy Mahar wrote that if you were having trouble with your garden, the BEST thing to do was to find a garden you admired, […]
Category: Preservation
Happy Birthday to Ashton!!
We started at Leipzig Tavern/Gino’s where it was hard to decide what to have for dinner…(Amy helps Ashton out…) but after the feast, the REAL party began… In our many years in Oregon we had never been to Oaks Park, and if you are in the same boat, you’d better get over there…it’s pretty cool. […]
More on the Condit Dam
Here’s a cool blog…soon to feature a timelapse of the actual blowing up of the dam…check it out…thanks Jennifer!!
The Condit Dam
We stayed in White Salmon last weekend and the Sunday Oregonian had a front page story about the blasting of the 80 year old Condit Dam…to aid fish habitat on the White Salmon River. The dam had caused the formation of a “lake” where a river had been…Northwestern Lake, as it is called. Since we […]
1658 Court Street, Historical View Continues…
The porch history post got me looking at old photos, and so…to keep the thought going, here is the historical –mid-historical—and current view of 1658 Court Street. Photos do not exist of the rear of the house when it was on State Street, or at the corner of 17th and Court (it was moved twice…sort […]
Porch Newsnotes…
In 1901 the porch on our house (which, in 1901, sat at the corner of Court and 17th facing east) was not the same porch that we have now. (left to right rear:C.B.Moores, Martin Chamberlin, Lenore Chamberlin Weller. Center row: Rose Weller Chamberlin, Sallie Chamberlin Moores, Mrs. Hollister, Dr. Joseph Hollister. Botoom row: Mary Chamberlin […]
Lord and Schryver
I hope between now and September 18th you’ll have a chance to visit the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see an interesting show of the garden plans and watercolors of the landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, curated by Sharon Rose and myself. Lord and Schryver both attended the Lowthorpe School in Groton, […]
Salem Buildings…
K. Williams Brown quoted me in a column in the SJ Sunday , and we had a thoughtful conversation Friday about Salem architecture. The columnist, only here two years…from the south originally, was wanting to write about the “new brutalist” nature of public buildings, and lamenting that Oregonians don’t appreciate good architecture. Over the weekend […]
Office of the Oregon State Forester
On February 1st the newly appointed Oregon State Forester, Doug Decker, began work here in Salem. Coincidentally he’s my brother (!), and yesterday R & I were invited to bring our lunches (note the apostrophe problem here…oops…you’d need TOOLS to edit it…) and see the new office…just blocks from our house. The building sits on […]
Bush House Conservatory…
In the local preservation world in ANY region, it seems there are often more sad stories about the buildings lost than happy ones…but here is a very happy one indeed. In our local wonderful Bush’s Pasture Park stands the amazing Bush House Museum. Behind the museum (another story for another day) is the small and […]
On The Way 