Here is an iconic moment in time for Salem, and for our neighborhood. On April 25, 1935 (85 years ago from this writing) a raging fire consumed the roof and copper dome of this, Oregon’s second State Capitol building built in 1874. It was designed by the Portland firm of architects Justus F. Krumbein and […]
This post is probably going to be in the “too much information” category for most of you…but I HAVE to do it. It does, however, explain why it has been so quiet from these parts for awhile. We’ve been hunkering down while this very old house has been thoroughly gone over, repaired and painted in […]
“Back in the day…” (1930 let’s say) our yard looked like this (the houses belonged to our neighbors) and when we bought the house in 1980 it looked like this…(and the red house is ours) and now it looks like this…with this addition to the rear of the house from 1995… and in the east […]
Friday I stayed pretty much in the neighborhood, but luckily this is a neighborhood with fun stuff happening…neighbor and book artist Ann Kresge agreed to do a quick tutorial for me on a couple of basic book formats, before I go off to California for my week at the Lost Coast Culture Machine with Carolyn […]
I forgot to mention that Frankie started playing uke with Carol and Sharon and me. When we were dropping her off the other day (Frankie and George are neighbors in the historic district) she invited us to stroll her garden saying “it’s a little wild”…but in fact it’s just plain beautiful…and it’s only just May. […]
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 […]
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 […]
TREE surgery that is. Last week we noticed this sign on a tree across the street… and really, when we stepped back and LOOKED at the tree we saw it was a bit sick looking, and at the base of the trunk somebody in the neighborhood had sprinkled rose petals…as a last tribute? And today, […]
It’s sooooo cold here today. I went by the creek planting site this morning on my way back from the last Thanksgiving errands, and though all the holes were neatly dug, the planters weren’t there…too cold I thought: but on our way to coffee we did a quick drive by just in case and found […]
Luke Westphal and Caprielle Barlow both graduated from Willamette University last spring…she in bio/chem, he in environmental science. For his senior thesis project Luke designed an area in the ODOT right of way under the Mission Street fly-over in which his idea was to rid the creek bank of the invasive species growing there (mostly […]
