Queen Anne Cottage (1540 Chemeketa St NE) Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Queen Anne Cottage (1540 Chemeketa 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.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 86010-190 Owners: James B. and Martha S. Thompson, 1540 Chemeketa Street, NE, Salem, OR 97301
Primary Contributing
This is a small, single-story Queen Anne cottage. It is hipped-roofed with a front-facing (north) gable above the recessed porch in the front left corner. The eave overhangs are boxed. The windows are mostly one-over-one double-hung sash, but two of the windows are large with leaded diamond patterns in a horizontal band across the top.
Before 1986, asbestos shingles covered the original drop siding and some of the original window frames had been removed, but the current owners have restored the structure. The house stands on land sold by Sarah E. Smith to Phil N. Thomas in 1903. He probably built the house and sold it in 1908 to Ferdinand Kurz. Neither of these owners seems to have lived in the house, nor apparently did C. W. and Emma Usher, who purchased it in 1919. Patrick and Mary Cleary bought the house in 1921 and lived in it until 1952. Patrick Cleary was a laborer and warehouseman. This cottage is of the same design and date as the Hornschuch cottages (#81 and #83) but with the plan reversed. Two cottages on 15th Street (#120 and #121) originally were of this design, too.
All five were constructed about 1905, possibly by the same builder.
