St. Helena's Anglican Church Beaufort, South Carolina

St. Helena's Anglican Church has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Beaufort 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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

69000159

Date Listed

December 17, 1969

Name

Beaufort Historic District

Address

Bounded by the Beaufort River, Bladen, Hamar, and Boundary Sts.

City/Town

Beaufort

County

Beaufort

State

South Carolina

Category

district

Level of Sig.

national

Years of Sig.

1521; 1710; 1861

Areas of Sig.

ARCHITECTURE; EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT; MILITARY; NATIVE AMERICAN; COMMERCE; SOCIAL HISTORY; BLACK; POLITICS/GOVERNMENT; COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

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FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries—complete applicable sections_______________ 1. Name historic Minto, John and Douglass Houses and/or common 2. Location street & number 841* 835 and 821 Saginaw Street South not for publication city, town Salem vicinity of congressional district second state code 41 county Marion code047 3. Classification Category Ownership district public X building(s) X private structure both site Public Acquisition object in process being considered Status occupied unoccupied work in progress Accessible yes: restricted X yes: unrestricted no Present Use agriculture commercial educational entertainment _X _ government industrial military museum p^rlc X r private residence religious scientific transportation other: 4. Owner of Property name Oregon School Employees Association, John Brown Executive Director street & number 821 Saginaw Street South city, town Salem vicinity of state Oregon 97302 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Marion County Clerk (Recorder) street & number Marion County Courthouse city, town Salem state Oreqon 97302 6. Representation in Existing Surveys title has this property been determined elegible? __ yes X no date federal state __ county local depository for survey records city, town state 7. Description Condition excellent _K_good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one X unaltered X altered Check one X original site X moved dateca, 1918 Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance The ensemble of three houses occupied by succeeding generations of the Minto family is located on a bluff above Willamette Slough, and access to the family's sheep and hop ranch on Minto Island in the flood plain nearby to the west was provided by a private pull ferry across the slough. To the north was a brewery, and to the south were lumber? .yards apd rnojdest residential districts. The area to the north was replaced by fashionable htJtISes1,^^iVceinfy the new Civic Center and developments along Commercial Street, a major arterial. The ensemble is situated,jit.the head of Mission and Saginaw S±reejtjSea block west of Commercial Street, On Saginaw/nomes still stand, south of the site, /lumDer yards have been replaced by two story apartments. The district is now business zoned. After the turn of the century, Burlington Northern Railroad tracks below the bluff impeded access to the slough, and eventually the island ranch was sold to the Oregon Pulp and Paper Company after World War II for settling ponds. The rest of the island is now a part of the Willamette Greenway combining agricultural and recreational uses. The John Minto house at 841 Saginaw is a two-story, frame vernacular farmhouse. The southern­ most of the houses, it was built 1869 and originally stood 100 feet to the north of its present site, roughly between the two later houses as they now stand. Its well is now covered by the patio of the second Douglas Minto house. When it was relocated, about 1918, it was placed on a full concrete basement and was given a new front porch, fireplace chimney, staircase, and dining room cabinetry in the Craftsman mode, L-Shaped in plan, the gable-roofed house is oriented with the inner angle facing the street. It is in this angle that a hip-roofed front porch with square posts and solid railing was added. Exterior walls are clad with lapped weatherboards; the basement is covered with drop siding. Plain frieze boards are used under boxed cornices. Tall window openings are fitted with double-hung sash and one-over-one lights and are trimmed with molded architraves. The four-panel front door in beaded frame with corner blocks has two rectangular top lights. Rectangular window openings with many small panes were added in the south living room wall in 1918 on either side of the chimney piece added at the same time. Paired window openings were made in the north wall of the dining room and framed on the inside wall by built-in cabinetry and sideboard in 1918 also. A single story kitchen ell with north side porch is centered in the rear elevation. The Colonial Bungalow at 835 Saginaw, completed in 1922, was the first of two houses built for the distinguished pioneer's son, Douglas Minto. Rectangular in plan, it is oriented longi­ tudinally on its lot and is covered by a hipped roof with a pair of transverse jerkin-headed gables at either side. Boxed cornices have returns at the gable ends. The central gable- roofed front porch with full classical entablature, vaulted pediment with raking, denticulated frieze, is carried by a pair of Doric columns on a concrete deck with bowed steps, A large dormer with jerkin-headed gable roof is on the rear roof slope. Exterior walls are clad with wide lapped weatherboards. Fenestration is typical of the Bungalow Style, with picture windows in the facade, one on either side of the entrance, haying many small panes at the top most part of the opening. Bilateral symmetry of facade organization is consistent, each elevation. Interior finish, too, is typical of the period and style, featuring a ceramic tile fireplace in the north wall of the living room flanked by book shelves and crowned with a continuous wood mantel piece extending the width of the wall, and, setting off the dining room, a column screen in which truncated oblisks with necking and capitals are used instead of classical columns. Plans and specifications for the Colonial Bungalow of 1922 were recently discovered in possession of the current owner. The house was designed by Fred A. Legg of Salem, and the contractors were Larson, Madill and Bruce. Construction started at the end FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number Page la of January, 1922, and the project was scheduled for completion May 1 of the same year. Specifications show that the interior trim, cabinetry and book cases were of yellow fir to be painted white and ivory enamel. Livingroom, diningroom and bedroom floors were oak finished with golden oak stain and two coats of varnish. Fred A. Legg (1869-1941), the architect of the Colonial Bungalow of 1922, was a native of Portland, Oregon, attended Willamette University in Salem, and studied architecture in Philadelphia. He began his practice in Salem in the office of Walter D. Pugh in 1904, and in 1906 established his own offices in Salem and Portland. The Portland office was discontinued in 1916 and reopened in 1922 with his son, Kenneth Legge (who changed the style of the family name), in charge. The elder Legg is better known for commercial buildings, such as the R. P. Boise Building of 1913, which has been nominated to the National Register, and for public schools in Oregon and Washington as well as numerous buildings for Oregon State institutions and the fairgrounds. FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department off the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Continuation sheet____________________Item number 7____________Page 1 b____ A more sophisticated building, stylistically, is the second house of Douglas Minto, completed in 1926 in the English Cottage Style, a continuation of stylistic traditions of English Arts and Crafts architecture. Owing to its prominent location at the head of Mission Street, distinctive features such as segmental-arched tripartite window openings, unadorned stucco finish and rolled eaves in imitation of thatched roofs, it is the preeminent example of its style in the city. Of the three houses, it has undergone more adaptive-use modification since 1970, when it was converted to office use. Rectangular in plan, the 2h story house has a gable roof with rolled overhanging eaves with gutters and downspouts. The facade, in keeping with the English Cottage tradition, has a picturesque, or irregular composition in which a gable-roofed section at the north end of the facade dominates but is offset by two varied dormers at the center and south end. The central dormer above a gable-roofed porch with round arched portals in each wall is a swept, or eye-brow dormer. Fenestration originally consisted of paired and tripartite openings fitted with double-hung window sash with border- type membering. Window glazing in upstairs windows of the facade has been changed to sliding aluminum sash. Several of the window openings have segmental arch heads, a hallmark of the Arts and Crafts Style. The exterior walls are finished with unrelieved stucco. Massing of other volumes, bays and projections of the house is also picturesque, or irregular. The south gable end is jerkin-headed. The front door is glazed with border membering and is flanked by two elongated sidelights with round-arched heads. The entrance hall has arched closet doors, and on the north, a wide archway to the living room on the north extending the depth of the house. A fireplace with ceramic tile surround and classical mantel piece occupies the center of the north wall, and double doors to an enclosed porch flank either side. Qi the south wall!of the living room is what was a column screened entrance to the dining room. It consisted of four turned posts above a low wall on each si deaf the passageway. Despite the added backing, the original effec has been retained in part. In the dining room are two glass-fronted built-in corner cabinets like the one in the living room. To the south of the entrance hall is a former bedroom with arched windows, and, on the south, two closets on either side of a window with built-in drawers underneath. Back of the entrance hall, to the west, is a hall with staircase, and doors to the dining room, kitchen in the south west corner and a downstairs bath on the south. Upstairs are three bedrooms off a center hall, a bath in the south east corner, and a dressing room in the north west. In 1949 the Mintos added the bedroom in the southwest corner of the upstairs, and created what was an office for Douglas by enclosing the porch on the north. In 1952, a recreation room was created in the basement, complete with fireplace. In 1970, the second owners, both physicians, changed the upstairs windows across the front, redesigned the kitchen and dining room windows, and the kitchen cabinets. The third owners, a firm of lawyers, used the house solely for an office, and are responsible for the current decor. They added the doorway to the dining room and built the wall behind the screen, and they replaced glazed doors to the porch office on the north. 8. Significance Period prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 _X_ 1800-1 899 X 1900- Areas off Significance — Check archeology-prehistoric archeology-historic X agriculture _ X_ architecture art _ X- commerce X communications and justify below community planning _ landscape architecture conservation ^ law economics literature education X military engineering music exploration/settlement philosophy industry X politics/government invention religion science Sculpture social/ humanitarian theater transportation other (specify) Specific dates Ca. 1869, 1922. 1926 Builder/Architect Unknown Statement off Significance (in one paragraph) The three increasingly substantial houses forming a contiguous ensemble at 841, 835, and 821 Saginaw Street in Salem, Oregon represent the rising fortunes of a pioneer stock and hop- raising family headed by John C. Minto (1822-1915), who immigrated to the United States from England in 1840 and arrived in Oregon in 1844 by the overland route, John Minto is best remembered in Oregon history for his initiating the raising of sheep in the Willamette Valley, beginning in 1846, and for his writings on Oregon farm life. He served eight years in the State House of Representatives. The houses are significant to Salem for their association with John Minto and his heirs and because they include the city's outstanding example of English Cottage Style architecture, popular in this country between the First and Second World Wars. The other two are a Colonial Bungalow and a vernacular farmhouse of ca. 1869. Each of the three houses embodies the distinctive characteristics of its style. Collectively, they possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and associa­ tion with an important pioneer family. The second Douglas Minto House comands from the rear, as it was intended to, a view of the historic ranch on Minto Island in Willamette Slough to the west. Today, the historic farm holdings are in a combination of wild fowl refuge, farming and recreational uses. Each of the houses is presently owned by the Oregon School Employees Association, which occupies the second Douglas Minto house and leases the other two as a dwelling place and £ philanthropic clothing resale outlet, respectively. Agriculture: John Minto was one of the important figures in the early development of agri- agriculture in Oregon, and some members of his family, particularly his son, Douglas (1862- 1942), carried on his interests. John Minto farmed first at Clatsop Plains, then Mission Bottom, and finally selected a donation land claim four miles south of Salem. He was first interested in orchards, and his first fruit was shipped to the gold fields of California. His interest then changed to the raising and study of Merino sheep and the wool industry. He acquired the beginnings of his flock from the Puget Sound Agricultural Society and from men like Joseph Holman, In 1856, John became one of the first stockholders in the Willamette Woolen Manufacturing Company of Salem, the first such manufactory on the Pacific Coast. As secretary of the State Agricultural Society, he helped organize the first State Fair, held in 1861 on the present site of Gladstone. During the years, he received more than 400 awards for his displays of sheep and their fleeces. He served as secretary of the Board of Horti­ culture 1887 to 1890, and he later was appointed a member by Governor Wm. P. Lord. In 1892 he was commissioned to report on the sheep industry in California, Oregon and Washington by the U. S, Secretary of Agriculture. His report is a major source of historical data on sheep growing in the West. In 1869, John Minto acquired the north end of what is now known as Minto Island. It had been cleared of marketable timber for the wood piles of Salem, and was, by that time, brush and wild land which Minto was able to develop into a productive hop and sheep ranch. John Minto was the editor of an important agricultural newspaper published in Salem, the Willamette Farmer, 1869-70, and he was a frequent contributor in later volumes. He also contributed articles on agriculture topics to other publications. 9. Major Bibliographical References See continuation sheet 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property slightly less than one Quadrangle name Salem West UMT References Quadrangle scale 1^24,000 Zone Cl i 1 E ___ I G , 1 1419,615,2,01 Easting I l i I , , I 11,1,.! i i , i , , i 14,917,513,2,01 Northing I i.i , I i i I i , i , | i , | i i i i i , i i BLJ Zone D|_J "UJ Hi I 1 Mill! Easting Mil.! l 1 i l i i Mil,, 1,1,, , 1 Northing 1 , I , | i i I iii, 1,1, i , l i , i Verbal boundary description and justification The MintO Mouses are located in NH-4 SW% Sec* 27, I. 7S., R. 3W., W.M., and are situated on the northerly portion of Block 1 of Minto's Addition to the Plat of Salem, Marion County, Oregon, The parcels they.occupy are identified as Tax Lots 83470-000, 83470-010, 83470-020, and 83470-050. A more detailed description of each List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county Boundaries ' state code county code attached state code county code 11. Form Prepared By name/title David Duniway organization date November 17, 1980 street & number 1365 John Street S. telephone (503) 581-2338 city or town Salem state Oregon 97302 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: • national __ state _X_ localr\ As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the Nat onal Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89- 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the Nation? Register and/certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritaq Conse/vation and Recreation Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature- title Deputy State Historic- Preservation Officer July 6, 1981 uded in the National Register :a&:S*:s.v;*s3fe;;s;.:;Asc5Ji:rt«?.^=-i8!i*sis;-*?:-:S;*:;i'iws Keeper of the National Register '::. .•:.-:..v!i.'i*.r7;--..,..i:.-.?:.;:;v-«ii ^!"-:.si-i..'1:. ,-iulL:*:>jr,,"Viir!,£1"^."-> • ~J-•••&:.:•.-*+ • - , • •. •>< GPO 938 835 FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department off the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number S Page Under the direction of Minto's son , Douglas, the ranch was to become one of the finest hop ranches in the Willamette Valley, where 110 acres of hops could gross as much as $43,000 in one year. John Minto's house, and the houses which Douglas built in 1922 and 1926 were situated on a bluff above the slough. As early as 1870, a private pull ferry had been installed to the Island. The 1926 house was specially designed with picture windows to the west from which Douglas Minto could watch his island property and quickly spot trouble. If the island commenced to be flooded by the Willamette River he knew it would soon be necessary to move all his sheep and horses to the second story of the barn built on the highest spot on the island. Architecture: The sty 1 es of t§edt^efthfiugg?tfflB^fiBtsJWl«?WTfiJuW&SfeifB?,stfi£f5IMeof th styles, from the simple vernacular farmhouse of^John Win to to trre Colonial Bungalow/ farmfiouse is based on evidence that John and Martha Minto took a mortgage in May, 1869 on the site. The architect, or the origin of the plans for Douglas Minto's second house is as yet unknown. Family tradition has it that the initial architect hired to design the 1926 English Cottage was not able to reconcile the desires of the Mintos with his own concept, thereby forcing the clients to hire a second architect. Only two other houses of this style are known to have been built in Salem; and one of them built in 1926 also, for Mrs. Estelle Bush Thayer, was demolished with the expansion of the Capitol Mall in recent years. Commerce: As a young man, Douglas Minto was a member of the firm of Minto and Waters, tobacco dealers in Salem. His brother Jasper ("Jap") was engaged in the truck and dray business and for many years had the "Fashion Stables" on the southwest corner of Court and High. Exploration/Settlement: John Minto was born in Wylam, Northumberland, England, the son of a coal miner. The family came to America in 1840, and the young John worked in coal mines in New England and Pennsylvania. He was a member of the second family migration to Oregon in 1844, and was one of a number of pioneer Englishmen who settled in the Salem vicinity. His farm on Minto Island and his home represented the culmination of his agrarian career. He also wrote extensively about the pioneer experience and farm life. He was the author of Rhymes on Life in Oregon, 1904 (poetry) and Rhymes of Early Life in Oregon and Historical and Biographical Facts,1915 (prose). He explored and surveyed Minto and Santiam passes in Oregon's Cascade Range. Law: Two sons of John Minto were associated with the law. John Wilson Minto was Salem Marshall, 1877-1881, Sheriff of Marion County, Chief of Police of Portland, Oregon 1894-97, and Warden of the State Penitentiary. His brother, Harry Percy Minto, was also Sheriff of Marion County, and Warden of the State Penitentiary and was killed by an escaped convict in 1915. A grandson, Frank A. Minto, also went into law enforcement and was Salem City Marshall and then Chief of Police, 1926-1947. Military: John Minto saw service in the Cayuse War following the Whitman massacre in 1847. Politics/Government: John Minto was a staunch Republican and served four terms as State Representative from Marion County in the Oregon State Legislature, 1862, 1868, 1880, and 1890. With Asahel Bush, Democratic leader, and William P. Lord, Republican leader, both neighbors, he was part of a triumvirate which excercised great political influence in the city, county and state, well into this century. As an observer, he even attended the 1915 Legislature in the last months of his life. FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register off Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Continuation sheet____________________Item number 8___________Page 2_____ Soci a!/Humanitarian: John Minto was an active member of the Oregon Pioneer Association, a Mason and charter member of the Salem Elks Club. His son, Douglas, was an active member of the Capital Volunteer Fire Engine Company when it won the tournament at As tori a in 1886, and another son, John W. Minto, was a member of the Board of Fire Directors which coordinated the activities of the Volunteer Fire Companies. Douglas Minto and George Waters organized and played in the Salem Baseball team which led to the building of Waters field, for years the home of the Salem Senators. John Minto organized and was long a leader in the Burns Club of Salem, devoted to the poetry of the bard. Note on occupancy: Various members of the Minto family occupied the three houses from time to time, and there were at least two other Minto houses in the area which are no longer standing or which are not contiguous with the ensemble. Douglas built one of them across Mission Street to the north and occupied it 1911-1913. Harry Minto occupied a house at 895 Saginaw by 1913, at which time John was boarding with him. FHR-*-300 (11-78) United States Department off the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Continuation sheet Minto, John & Douglas, Houses Item number 9__________Page 1_____ Interviews with Mary Minto and Evelyn Scott Fern's, September 1980. Willamette Farmer, Vols. 1-3 (1869-1873), Salem Public Library. Oregon Statesman, Feb. 26, 1915, p. 1 & 3, "John C. Minto . . . Called Beyond" Jan. 1, 1927, p. 6. "Building Activity in Salem Increases . . . D. C. Minto dwelling at 825 Saginaw, $12,000 . . ." April 14, 1942, p. 1-2, "Two Pioneers Die . . ." (Douglas C. Minto). Corning, Howard McKinley. Pi cti onary of Oregon Hi story . . . Binfords & Mort, Portland, 1956. p. 167. John Minto. Friends of Deepwood. Salem Tour of Buildings in the National Register of Historic Places, October 5, 1980. Hines, H. K. An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon . . . Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1893, p. 875-878.John Minto. Jones, Alfred C., "Minto history revived by find," Capital Journal, Salem, June 9, 1973, Section 4, page 9. Ladd and Bush Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1, April 1915, p. 18-21. "Mr. John Minto's Autobiography." Lomax, Alfred L. Pioneer Woolen Mills in Oregon: History of Wool and Wool en Textile Industry . . . 1811-1875. Binfords & Mort, Portland, 1941. Many references to John Mint Lowe, Beverly Elizabeth, A Biography of an Oregon Pioneer, John Minto, Man of Courage, 1822-1915. Kingston Price and Company, Salem, Oregon, 1980. Includes further biblio­ graphy and some of John Minto's writings. Minto, John, Rhymes of Early Life in Oregon and Historical and Biographical Facts, Oregon Statesman Publishing Company, Salem, 1915. Minto, Mary C., Untitled manuscript of brief history of the houses and ranch furnished the Oregon School Employees Association with historical pictures of 821 Saginaw, including its construction. Oregon School Employees Association, Brochure, "Welcome to the State Office Building of the Oregon School Employees Association, Salem, Oregon [1980]." Polk, R. L. & Company and predecessors. Salem City and County Directories, 1871-1949. Official records of Marion County: deeds, mortgages, plats and probate records. Official records of City of Salem: building permit records Union Title Company Property Index Sanborn Insurance Atlas Maps, 1895 (1915), 1926. FHR-S-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register off Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number Page 2 Fred A. Legg, Architect of Douglas Minto House of 1922 Oregon State Board of Architect Examiners. Application No. 56, dated July 22, 1919, Fred A. Legg. Obituary, Oregon Statesman, November 4, 1941. Oregon Statesman January 1, 1914, page 26. January 1, 1916, Sec. 4, page 4. Plans for Douglas C. Minto House in possession of Oregon Scholl Employees Association, Salem. R. L. Polk Directories for the City of Salem, 1905 and 1907. State Plan files, Oregon State Archives. FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Continuation sheet Minto, John & Douglas, House Item number 10_________Page 1_____ Parcel 1: (821 SaginawS.) Beginning at the Northeast corner of Block 1 of Minto's Addition to Salem, in Marion County, Oregon; thence Westerly 123.5 feet, along the South line of Mission Street, to the East line of the right of way of the Oregon Electric Railway; thence Southerly 155.22 feet along the East line of said Railway; thence Easterly 211.9 feet, parallel with the South line of Mission Street, to the West line of Saginaw Street; thence Northerly 129.14 feet to the place of beginning. Parcel 2: (835 Saginaw S.) Beginning at a point on the West line of Saginaw Street, said point of being 178 feet and 6 inches North and 29 feet South, 89° West from Monument Number Two (2) in Minto's Addition to the City of Salem, Marion County, Oregon and running thence South 89° West 150 feet; thence North parallel with the West line of Saginaw Street 50 feet; thence North 89° East 150 feet to the West line of Saginaw Street; thence Southerly along the West line of Saginaw Street 50 feet to the place of beginning, and lying and being situated in the County of Marion and State of Oregon. Parcel 3: (841 Saginaw S.) Beginning on the West line of Saginaw Street at a point 128 feet and 6 inches North and 29 feet South 89° West from Monument No. 2 in the plat of Minto's Addition to the City of Salem, Marion County, Oregon; thence South 89° West, a distance of 150 feet; thence North 50 feet, parallel with the West line of Saginaw Street; thence North 89° East, a distance of 150 feet to the West line of Saginaw Street; thence South 50 feet to the place of beginning, said land being situated in Block 1 of Minto's Addition to Salem, in Marion County, Oregon.