I.N. Van Winkle House (1601 Chemeketa St NE) Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The I.N. Van Winkle House (1601 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
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Assessor's Map 26AB 7-3W
Tax Lot 84400-430
Owners: C. J. and Jill McLeod, 1601 Chemeketa Street, NE, Salem, OR 97301
Primary Contributing
The house is a one-and-one-half-story Queen Anne cottage set on a high foundation and characterized by a broadly spreading gambrel roof. It is a front-gambreled, south-facing house with a full front porch supported by four columns and enclosed by plain balusters and a rail. On the east side is a bay projection that was originally a sun porch. Exterior surfacing is clapboard. The house is set forward on a deep lot that extends back to Mill Creek.
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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.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 was built about 1908 by Isaac Newton Van Winkle and his wife, Elizabeth A. Pearl Van Winkle, members of two Oregon pioneer families. I. N. Van Winkle was the descendant of Dutch settlers in New York state. His father, also named Issac, had served in the War of 1812 and lived for many years in Kentucky and Tennessee when, late in life, he emigrated to Oregon in 1859. His son, Isaac Newton, had been born in Kentucky and raised in Morgan County, Tenn. He came across the plains to Oregon with his father and family in 1859 and settled in Linn County. For several years he worked in the mines of Bannock City, Ida., and then purchased a farm near Halsey. He married Elizabeth Pearl, a native of Missouri, the daughter of James Pearl, who had emigrated in 1852 from Missouri to Oregon, locating first in Linn County near Jefferson and later taking up a donation claim east of Harrisburg, where he lived for many years. Isaac Newton and Elizabeth Van Winkle had six children, including Isaac Homer Van Winkle, who served as the Attorney General of Oregon from 1920 to 1943. Isaac Newton and Elizabeth Van Winkle built their house on Chemeketa Street late in their lives. Their new house was next door, with an empty lot between, to the house owned and lived in by their son, I. H. Van Winkle (Cf. commentary on #106), The senior Van Winkles house was sold in 1910, (For information on the Van Winkle family, see: entry on James Starr Van Winkle in Willamette Valley Portrait and Biographical Record, pp. 907-908, and obituary for I. H. Van Winkle, Oregon Statesman, Dec. 15, 1943.)
