Franklin Yocom House (243 14th St NE) Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Franklin Yocom House (243 14th 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
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Assessor's Map 26BA 7-3W Tax Lot 84610-510 Owner: Marie Knapp, 5355 River Road, NE, Salem, OR 97303
This is a Vernacular house with Rural Gothic origins. It consists of a one-and-one-half-story front-gabled unit with a major one-story side-gabled north wing. (A one-story rear-gabled addition is attached at the rear of the main section, replacing an earlier shed addition.) Both sections have a front porch and door: the front-gabled unit has an attached, hipped-roofed full porch; the side-gabled wing has a partial porch encompassed under the roof. Siding is clapboard with corner boards. The gable overhangs contain exposed rafters at frequent intervals, with the rafter ends contained by barge boards ornamented with moldings. This arrangement, as well as such other details as the cornerboards meeting a wider raking cornice board at the top of the gable walls, suggest an early building date for this structure.
It has been altered somewhat: in addition to the altered rear extension, the hipped-roofed porch replaces a stoop (or possibly a bay window). The house faces 14th Street on the alley line behind the Rand House (#4).
History
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This property was part of the quarter block "west of Joseph Watt's land" that Franklin Yocom, a farmer in Polk County four miles west of Sheridan, purchased in 1864. He moved from the farm to Salem in the early 1870's and ran a slab lumber business. The City Directory for 1874 lists him as living on the west side of 14th Between Court and Center Streets. It seems likely that Mr. Yocom's Salem residence was the house now numbered 243 14th, built between 1864 and 1874. Franklin Yocora was born in Kentucky in 1820 and grew up on a farm his parents settled near Springfield, 111. In 1842, he married Nancy J. Darnell, and they had 10 children. They crossed the plains in 1851 and settled in Polk County. He lived in Salem from the early seventies until about 1890 and then returned to his farm (Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, p. 831). In 1895, he sold part of his property at 14th and Court Streets to Sylvia M. Greene of Linn County (cf. commentary on #4). He sold his house on 14th Street in March 1908. If a construction date in the 1860's or early seventies is correct for this house, it is one of the two oldest in the District—its only contemporaries being #1 and #39.
