Joseph and Louise Benjamin House (1445 Court St NE) Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Joseph and Louise Benjamin House (1445 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
Assessor's Map 26BA 7-3W
Tax Lot 86010-130
Owner: Mariann Quellette, 1445 Court Street, NE, Salem, OR 97301 Compatible/Historic Non-Contributing
Built c. 1902 by Charles Pannenter and illustrated in the Oregon Statesman for Jan. 1, 1905, this vernacular house originally had a full front porch and a small rear porch on the east side wall. Part of the front porch has since been walled in and the house has been sided with composition shingles. The original front door, with transom and side windows, was replaced in 1984. The house is south-facing and front-gabled, basically rectangular in plan with a slight el projection at the right rear.
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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
Charles Parmenter was born in 1859 in a house at 809 N. Commercial, where he also died, in 1948 (obituary, Oregon Statesman, Jan. 13, 1948, p. 4). His mother was the daughter of pioneer Oregon judge R. P. Boise.
Parmenter was a carpenter in Salem for more than 50 years and worked on the construction of the old capitol and other public structures. He also built houses. The one now numbered 1445 Court was built about 1902 but never lived in by Parmenter. In 1905 it was occupied by W. T. Perkins, chief clerk in the state treasurer's office.
In 1915, Parmenter sold the house to Joseph Benjamin, an assistant attorney general, and his wife, Louise Benjamin. The Benjamins owned the house until 1943, when it was sold and converted to apartments.
