Rady and Grace Stiffler House (1677 Chemeketa St NE) Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Rady and Grace Stiffler House (1677 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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 Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.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 26AB 7-3W
Tax Lot 84400-470
Owner: Florence Berry, 1677 Chemeketa Street, NE, Salem, OR 97301
Primary Contributing
This is a side-gabled vernacular wood house of one-and-one-half stories, with a one-story rear-gabled wing at the back. The house was two full porches: the one across the back (north) is supported by turned columns, has "gingerbread" detailing, and probably is original to the house, suggesting a building date in the 1890's; the front porch is a later addition, of perhaps about 1910, in a Craftsman style. It is formed by an extended, flared-roof section and supported by four squared piers atop a boarded balustrade. The cornice returns on the side-facing gables terminate arbitrarily to allow for the new porch configuration. A flared, hipped dormer probably was added at the time of reworking the roof and adding the porch. Exterior walls are covered in simple drop siding except for the vertical boards of the skirting of the front porch.
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.
Carrie E. Nichols purchased the lot from the developer O. E. Krausse in 1890 and probably built the original version of the house soon after, though there is no evidence that she actually lived there.
As Carrie Nichols Reeves, she sold the house in 1909 to Rady and Grace Stiffler, who are listed as living there by 1911. He was a carpenter and she a dressmaker, Mrs. Stiffler lived on in the house until about 1929.
