Evangelical Church Parsonage Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Evangelical Church Parsonage 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
Assessor's Map 26AC 7-3W
Tax Lot 84400-230
Owner: Fred A. and Fay Moore, % Ardith Hellemn, 4273 Penny Drive, S, Salem, OR 97302 Primary Contributing
This is a tall two-story Vernacular house with a flat-topped, hipped roof. The tall, single one-over-one double-hung sash windows are widely spaced in the walls; the exterior surfacing is dropsiding with corner boards. A small hipped roof protects the front (west) door, and the Sanborn map for early in the century suggests that the house always has had an entry stoop and never a full porch.
A one-story shed addition, probably original, is attached at the rear. Another one-story addition to the back of the south side was added later.
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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.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 history of the house is tied to the Chemeketa Street Evangelical Church, built on the adjacent lot to the north in 1894 during the pastorate of I. B. Fisher (cf. commentary on #89). Rev. Fisher was appointed to establish the church in 1893 and served it until 1896. In the 1896 City Directory, he is listed as residing on 17th, southeast corner of Chemeketa — the location of the church, specifically, but by extension the parsonage adjacent to it.
The parsonage is not referred to with a numbered address in the City Directory until 1907. The assumption is that the house was built as the parsonage and was first occupied by Rev. Fisher.
Subsequent pastors lived there, including Theodore R. Hornschuch in 1906 and M. Heverling in 1907 ("One Hundred Years of Evangelical Witness in Salem, 1865-1965," booklet compiled by Frank Butler, church historian).
