Barquist House (1363 Court St NE) Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Barquist House (1363 Court St NE) has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Court Street--Chemeketa Street Historic District. The following information has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 87001373
- Date Listed
- August 26, 1987
- Name
- Court Street--Chemeketa Street Historic District
- Address
- An irregularly shaped area of appr. 38.57 acres bounded by the closures of Court Street & Chemeketa St. on the west, Mill Creek on the north & east, and on the south by the rear lot lines of properties on the south side of Court St.
- City/Town
- Salem
- County
- Marion
- State
- Oregon
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT; POLITICS/GOVERNMENT; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Barquist House, moved to this site in 1986, was built c. 1895 south of the District on Mission Street (at the northwest corner of 14th and Mission, in the path of the Mission Street widening project begun in 1986). The house, built of redwood, is a Queen Anne cottage with Eastlake decorative woodwork and has remained unchanged through the years. It is many-gabled and asymmetrical in design, with a variety of roof planes, bay windows, and decorative exterior woodwork—all typical of the Queen Anne style. The ornament on this particular house, though, is varied, individual, and distinctive, and includes a sunburst, stars, bull's-eyes, scroll brackets, and a variety of shingle patterns.
History
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The house probably was built in 1895 by Archibald and Augusta Crosby. Crosby was born at Fingal, Canada, in 1863, and attended Aylmer College. In 1889, he came to Salem and worked for over ten years as a pharmacist at Dan Fry's drug store. In 1893, Crosby married Augusta Palmer, and in 1894 they bought two lots in the new Depot Addition. By 1896, the Crosbys are listed in the City Directory at the house on Mission Street. (They moved in 1900 to The Dalles, where Crosby opened his own drug store which he ran successfully for over 25 years. He retired in 1927 to become manager of The Dalles Hospital.) In 1902, the Crosbys had sold the Queen Anne cottage to Lyman and Mina Morse. Lyman Morse was a carpenter who died about 1906, leaving his widow to live on in the house until 1924. By 1926-27, Frank and Ida Barquist and their family were renting the house but did not purchase the property until 1936. Frank Barquist was a barber in Salem with his shop in the lobby of the Bligh Hotel. After his death, their daughter Carmelita purchased the house from her mother in 1948. Carmelita Barquist was a popular high school biology teacher in Salem. She was graduated from Willamette University in 1925 and began teaching in the Salem schools in 1927. She taught biology first at Salem High School and later at South Salem High School and was considered a master teacher, being named Oregon's Outstanding Biology Teacher in 1967, the year of her retirement.
(This lot on Court Street stood vacant from 1981, when the Virginia and William Chambers House, built c. 1920, burned. The Chambers came to Oregon from Pennsylvania, settling first in Newberg and then in Salem, in 1920. Mr. Chambers was manager of The Mart, a public Market at 355-367 N. High. The Chambers' son George and his wife May Steusloff Chambers built the house still standing at 260 13th Street, NE, in 1925-26. George and May Chambers' son, Douglas, was born in his maternal grandparents' (the Steusloffs') house that stood at 1285 Court, and he eventually bought and lived in the house at 1337 Court; cf. commentary on #2.)
